I dont know if anyone has seen this at DP, but thought I'd get it going here for additional input.
Long story short:
Put meth on the LBZ, did an oil analysis. Results weren't the greatest. Got thinking/asking and decided to switch to distilled water instead of tap. Ran another analysis, contaminates were down to more normal readings. Ran it by Snow Performance and they asked me if I would switch back to tap water and see if the numbers went back up. I did, they did.
Here is the oil analysis. 1 was the first using water from wherever was easy to get, my house, spicket at the truck stop, etc. test 2 was only distilled/sodium free water from Culligan/Walmart. test 3 was back to tap water but only from my home.
I know this is far from a scientific study, but the results are interesting.
The only thing I changed was water source. I switched to only tap(softened) water from my home.
The methanol was from the same batch.
The oil and oil filter was the same brand I always use.
Interesting what happened to Silicon, Sodium, and Magnesium.
Water contamination stayed the same.
So, back to those other questions:
Are these numbers really "normal", and acceptable for a meth injected vehicle? Tap water is ok?
I feel pretty safe in saying they came from the water source. But will the higher numbers cause any long term damage to the engine?
Should those of us running h20/meth stay away from tap water for everyday use?
Long story short:
Put meth on the LBZ, did an oil analysis. Results weren't the greatest. Got thinking/asking and decided to switch to distilled water instead of tap. Ran another analysis, contaminates were down to more normal readings. Ran it by Snow Performance and they asked me if I would switch back to tap water and see if the numbers went back up. I did, they did.
Here is the oil analysis. 1 was the first using water from wherever was easy to get, my house, spicket at the truck stop, etc. test 2 was only distilled/sodium free water from Culligan/Walmart. test 3 was back to tap water but only from my home.
I know this is far from a scientific study, but the results are interesting.
The only thing I changed was water source. I switched to only tap(softened) water from my home.
The methanol was from the same batch.
The oil and oil filter was the same brand I always use.
Interesting what happened to Silicon, Sodium, and Magnesium.
Water contamination stayed the same.
So, back to those other questions:
Are these numbers really "normal", and acceptable for a meth injected vehicle? Tap water is ok?
I feel pretty safe in saying they came from the water source. But will the higher numbers cause any long term damage to the engine?
Should those of us running h20/meth stay away from tap water for everyday use?
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