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Old 02-15-2001, 12:03 AM   #13
rB5
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I found this posted on a previous thread:

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As a former motorcycle racer, superbikes, I can shed some light on Royal Purple. It is a great synthetic racing oil. But it is racing oil, it is designed for short life high temp. motors hard working motors. The stuff is not designed for everyday driving. If you race or do a lot of hard driving it is wonderful. But beware I personally do not trust it for more than about a 1000 miles. I have had friends in a group that I used to ride with have problems with it, one guy blew his motor due viscosity break down of his oil. He was running Royal Purple.

I ran Royal Purple in my race bikes, but I ran Torco 20w-50 natural in my fun bike, 1998 GSX-R750. Royal Purple was orginally designed for motorcycle supersport racing and only recently within the last five years started doing automobile applications, can't verfiy last statement but heard it from a couple of mechanics on my old race team. Form my experiences with it excellent race oil. If I was to use it for normal driving oil I would be changing it once a month or every 1000 miles. But I know the stuff worked great at 15,000 rpm's on a bike with a 180 hp in 749CC = 43.2 cubic inches of displacement. I would talk to a race shop or tuner before going with any sort of racing oil, it may save you thousands in the long run.
Peace, Erik
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