pvknight

Kay, slick 50 failed me once on my previous 2.8L firechicken... and I've been brainwashed by almost 24/7 infomercials for Z-MAX for prolly almost a year. So, who's tried it? Or know's something about it besides the mpg increase, the carbon-cleaning, and the cold start protection?? By the way, don't they recommend z-max every 3k miles?... adding up to $40x4= $160 per year on additive?

Brian
'91 305tpi, auto, flowed, TransAM.

five7kid

iTrader: (14)

People, if you can't stop yourself from watching those misinfomertials, deprogram that channel from your VCR or cancel your cable!

There isn't any oil manufacturer that stands by their product if you add something else to it. Use a quality synthetic, and you'll get all the benefits these snakes promise, with the backing of the company to boot.

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82 Berlinetta, orig V-6 car. Rescued w/86 LG4/TH700R with all harnesses, sensors, ECM, etc. 2.73 open. Cat-back from '91 GTA, Accel HEI SuperCoil. AMSOIL syn lubes bumper-to-bumper. Daily driver, work-in-progress (LB9 w/ZZ3 cam, exhaust, paint, etc.).
57 Bel Air, my 1st car. Currently 396 .030 over, Weiand Action+, Edelbrock 1901 Q-Jet, Jacobs Omnipack, 1-3/4" headers, TH400 w/TCI Sat Night Special conv & shift kit, 3.08 10-bolt, AMSOIL syn lubes bumper-to-bumper. Best 15.1 @ 5800' Bandimere. Daily driver while Camaro was being put together.

Get Blown ?

Z-Max isn't an oil additive. It's a form of fuel injector cleaner. They claim it's remove carbon and the rings will seat better. Sounds like bull**** to me and personally I don't care if it would work at 40 bucks a pop your a sucker to put it nicely. I bet it's nothing more then kerosene in a bottle. That stuff is perfectly clear after all.

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1989 Camaro RS LO3 WCT5 "The Hose Queen" 0-60' 2.34 1/4 15.8@87mph
http://350.StreetRacing.org
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theformula

LOL pvknight. I was thinking of ordering some last night. I stayed up all night and kept seeing the commercial come on WB. They really get to you. Insomnia + Zmax commercials = brainwashing.

Thank god I'm over my limit on my credit card. I'd have that stuff at my door today. What an idiot I can be.
LMAO Get blown kerosene in a bottle. bwahahahha

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'92 Formula
305 TPI
Mods: SLP catback,SLP air foil,ported plenum,Crane AFPR (49psi),MSD6AL,homemade cold air,K&Ns,3:73s

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chevystud

If you want some good **** that will clean stuff up really good and cost you out the *** , buy some mobile1 synthetic. It is recomended for higher performance vehicles. I put it in my car(like my car is high perf. though) and I could tell a slight difference. But if you have alot of miles on your ride I wouldn't recomend it. It could clean to much sh*t out. Like if you use one kind of motor oil it tends to leave its own little deposits and at 120K miles everything is worn a little bit the deposits might be keeping everything sealed. You clean those deposits out and you have a small smoke problem. Remember the slight difference I mentioned.

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91RS, 305, 5-speed, black with pearl white racing stripes. Not that it matters, but K&N airfilter and flowmaster exhaust

pvknight

Kerosine in a bottle! LOL. You know, I went through the same brainwashing thing... night, can't sleep, flick on speedvision, and wham, z-max 2times in a row. Hooooeeey. Anyways, thanks for the "spirited" reaction, hehe. I'm running Castrol syntec-blend right now. In another 2kmiles, in goes Mobil 1. I have the Mobil 1 filter... does that count?! *grin*

Brian
'91 T/A 305TPI flowed.

Jer82Z28

remember that duralube infomerical
when they ran a motor with no oilpan, but then, to prove how good slick 50 is, they sprayed cold water on the bottom of the motor! HAHAHA
that just cooled the motor down. LOL

one additive that i've seen taht works is taht prolong stuff. a company i used to work for noticed increased mileage in their work trucks after they started mixing prolong in their motor oil.

TransAm182

i dunno guys...go to zmax's web site...they back their $hit with a pretty nice warranty on your engine, tranny, and fuel system....take a look...

Intense92

Seems to me I read something about Z-Max having a lawsuit filed against them for not being able to back up there claims of a 20% gas mileage increase. I know some people that tried it and didn't see any increase in mileage, just a thinner wallet!!!

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92 Camaro RS 5.0 5-Speed
L98 Alu. Heads
SLP coated headers
Dynomax cat-back
14" open air cleaner

Camaro_hunter_d

I know this is gonna sound like an ad but here it goes.

I was in the Navy for 2 years. When I got to my first duty station we were asked to run that stuff in our jets F/A-18 B/C/D aircraft. And well we were inpressed to say the least. When we sent to GE-404-400's off to AIMD(jet engine repair/inspection) after 750 flight hours the determination was made that it most definately worked. The bearings were barely scourned and the engines ran better(more stable RPM's with less sputtering). The bearing's were supposed to be replaced but they found no need to cause they were like new. They torn it down did a complete radiograph(searching for cracks) and radioscoped serveral load bearing surfaces to find that the additive was still in the metal 6MM after being soaked in degresser for 48 hours. I ran it in my car once and found it helped a little, but I run Castrol Syntech 5w-50 and have no prob so I am sticking to that.

Just thought you all would want to know that. Just FYI.

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Kills to date a 3.1 firebird 2 stop lights in a row.
95 Grand Am
Serveral Honda's
a friends 91 Rustang LX(I know its a 4 but he keeps trin')

Planned mods:
Soon coming 3 inch exhaust, 1.6 rockers, High flow 'Verter, and Ignition system. Along with a complete turbo 4.3 swap planned later this year(hoping to get into the 10's..)
Current mods:
Set of Iroc sway bars front and rear..amazing differance, Air box bottom completely removed allowing my K&N to act like an open element filter.
Lower profile tires, 195/55/15 front 205/55/15 rear handles better.
And a 160 deg thermo for a V8(and yes it works just fine)

Sterio Sony CD head unit and 9 band EQ, Boston acutics 4x6 dash, Alpine 3 way 6x9 sail, California sounds active crossover, Kroiiler 600 watt amp powering the 'pines and Bostons, 600 watt Jensen powering 2 Rockord Fosgate RFZ1812 subs. And all this cost less then $575...

88IROCs

Ok, so like I type in "Z-Max" at Yahoo, to see what all the fuss is about. This is the first site it lists - Z-Max, and I'm wondering what this has to do with making my baby run better. I mean I can see where improving her tendency to self-lubricate might make her her more enjoyable to ride, but I can't see where it'll make a difference for mileage. Will this stuff do anything when I trade her in, or will I have to settle for whatever I can get for the old nag?

Camaro_hunter_d

well it is supposed to seep into the metal and other fuel system componets and help keep the build ups to almost non existant state. so it will flow smoother... so I guess it could...keep the valve slick so everything just rolls off them?... I dunno we used it in the oil so...those things use so much fuel try 150-200 GPH at idle that would take ungodly amount of that stuff especially since it holds 12k pounds of fuel...

88IROCs

Camaro_Hunter,

I's trying to be funny in my last post(emphasis on trying). If you follow the link in that post you'll see what I was referring to.

On a serious note, I have been in several F-18 squadrons since 1987(Canadian Forces) and your information is interesting to say the least. Especially as right now I am the Squadron POL Coordinator. Would you be able to dig up any info regarding the testing the Navy did on this product? SI's, TO's or Maintenance Releases would be very helpful. I'm off the rest of this week, but next Monday I'll check with the FSR's to see what they know about this(would be helpful if I could tell them which units and/or test establishments were involved).

Our jets are getting old(A & B models), so anything that helps extend TBO's should be greeted quite well by the 'bosses'.

Thanx in advance.