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Originally Posted by XMetal
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Originally Posted by WeekendWarriorz
After you change the rod bearings run redline 5w50 and you won't have to deal with rod bearing issues again.
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Really? My own experiments indicated otherwise. I did run 1 oil change with Redline 5W50 showing no benefit from it.
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I saw your thread a while ago, it does take a few flushes for it to show. I believe Redline 5w50 has more zinc and phosphorus in it. Troy's has built over 700+ engines including supercharged builds, strokers, 9k rpm redline and hasn't had a single rod bearing failure. I would check out his Instagram I believe it's @troyjeup. I also did meet a guy at euroklasse with an e46 m3 that's vf570 supercharged for 80k+ miles and is on stock rod bearings and he's currently at 175k miles, using 5w50 redline as well. I know the data is minimal, but at this point 10w60 is proven to fail eventually so why not make the switch to something that has shown no failures thus far.
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