While the price of crude oil has dropped recently, the costs of lubricant base stocks, additives and other raw materials continue to rise. Most lubricant manufacturers are set to implement their fourth or fifth price increase since early February Valvoline, for example, has announced a 6 percent increase to its distributors, effective September 19. Chevron, ExxonMobile, ConocoPhillips, Citgo and BP Castrol will impose similar increases in September. These increases are expected to slowly work their way into the retail marketplace over the next several months.

While AMSOIL has also been affected with increasing costs of raw materials, the company is holding the line on implementing another price increase. AMSOIL has limited its price increases to just three since February, while also limiting the percentage increases to approximately half of the percentage increases implemented by competing manufacturers.

More Information

Many original equipment manufactures (OEM's) have transitioned to lighter viscosity motor oils over the years to help meet corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) requirements. While SAE 30 oils (5W-30, 10W-30) once comprised the majority of passenger car motor oil sales, SAE 20 oils (0W-20, 5W-20) have gradually claimed an increasingly larger slice of the pie.

Toyota, Honda, Acura, and Lexus, for example recommend 0W-20 oils in most new vehicles, while Ford and Dodge recommend 5W-20 oils in many new vehicles. Whatever your vehicles requirement, AMSOIL has the oil to meet your needs. More Information.

Hello,

You’ll notice by my signature below that I am an employee of Chevron Global lubricants division. I originally worked for Amoco at the R&D facility before moving into marketing, and while in that role, Chevron bought our lubricants business right after I moved to Florida. All in all, I have more than 34 years of experience in fuels and lubricants testing, development and tech service support. .

I own three motorcycles that I either drive on the street or race. What I wanted to share with you today is my experience with my drag bike. It is a Yamaha Roadstar Warrior. Originally built as a power cruiser, but now it is stretched, slammed and built to run on E-85 fuel and nitrous oxide. I have taken this bike from a fun street cruiser to a beast that wants to jump out from under me every time I snap the throttle.

The engine is putting out more than three times the horsepower it was originally built with, and with the highly oxygenated fuel, nitrous and severe use, I have been battling cylinder and piston ring distress for a couple of years. Essentially, whenever I did a teardown, there was evidence of streaking aggravated by the high cylinder pressures and fuel dilution.

Since Chevron does not make motorcycle oils, I have had to try many of the “other” different motor oils, all synthetic. To make a long story short, I should have read your white paper on motorcycle oil testing. It would have saved me at least three premature teardowns. Bottom line – the AMSOIL 20W-50 Synthetic Motorcycle Oil has completely solved my problems. I have been running it for over a year now, and compression and leakdown have stayed at the exact level as when the engine was freshly rebuilt.

This weekend, I tore down the top end to try a new piston ring combination, and the cylinders had absolutely NO sign of streaking or other wear-related distress. Also, all other clearances, including valve lash and valve guide and bearing, have stayed the same. This is truly remarkable.

In my training endeavors, I run into a lot of end users who are high performance junkies just like me. I have no problem sharing my experience with the AMSOIL products. In fact, just last month, I gave some lubricant training to 187 instructors at the UTI technical school in Orlando. I made it very clear that I was a big fan of yours.

Thank you so much for the great product.

Best Regards,

Sam Vallas

STLE CLS Training Specialist

Chevron Global Lubricants