Changed my tranny fluid over to RP yesterday and immediately noticed an increase in smoothness of the shift action. I'm sure it will be real nice on bitter cold Cleveland mornings.

 

Ive heard good things about Royal Purple, glad to hear good from a fellow cobalt owner.

 

what I heard too, nothing but good things...it is just a little more money i believe...

 

I was planning on putting that in soon myself... glad to hear it works

 

paul, if u want some let me know i can get ya a good deal for a few quarts.

 

definatly man... you coming through on DPA tonight? need to ask you about a few parts I have to order.. also got some credits if you want some fine tuning done.

 

i should be down there, i gotta few questions about my stock injectors too...( after reading another thread)

see you tonight.


rob.

 

ok so royal purple?? can you go into say jiffy lube or whatever and have them put this in?? Or what exactly is royal purple?? and where could you buy it??

 

cool man I'll see ya up there

 

ummm no you certainly cannot get royal purple at jiffy lube. pls tell me your kidding and that you dont actually have them change your oil? cause if you do. you probably have yet to have your oil filter changed since the meatheads that work that certainly have yet to find it.

and check out royal purples web site the make some if not the best automotive oiling products. i think redline makes a slightly better product but its much more expensive

also since day 1 with this car i have used nothing but royal purple products i have the synchromax trans fluid. 5w-30 racing oil and the purple ice coolant additive in my HE cooling system and my engine cooling system. i saw about a 8 degree temp drop in iat2's and about 11 in engine coolant temps with it not bad at all for 12bux

 

lol i know the people that work at jiffy lube and i watch them everytime they change my oil

 

same here... I just don't have anyplace to put my used oil anymore... I got like 10 1 gallon jugs in my driveway that I have to get rid of.

 

Waste oil burner for the garage?

 

If I had a garage,... I live in NYC, we work in the street.

 

I think your right about alot of things, but I know one thing for sure. Your car is not stock with a air box mod. Stock with a air box mod does not make any sense...just talking about your sig.

I think Advanced Auto and Autozone takes used oil. No charge. The on here locally does.

 

im pretty lucky in that respect i have full use of a 48 bay gm service shop. so its almost like the owe me for giving them oil to power the burners.

o im so sorry sirs let me get right on that for ya sirs.

 

LOL, I didint want to sound rude about it. Just my feeling on it. Anyways, nice runs man. 14.3 is good for only a air box mod. BTW, thanks for the idea for the Royal Purple ice addative. If your a GM tech and you run it I think it very well can be trusted.

 

yeah it can certainly be trusted its essentially "soap" (to extremely over simplify it.)

it reduces surface tension allowing the coolant to remove more engine heat as it runs through the coolant passages and then allows it to dissipate heat better once in the radiator. it also kind of acts as a lubricant. it works just like water wetter only i have found that purple ice just works better.


o and i changed my sig. i never really thought about it before but that really didn't make a whole lot of sense written like that

yeah i was pretty stoked about a 14.378 myself. it took a real hot day and slightly cooler night when i ran and about 18lbs of air in the front tires but on my 2nd pass that night the car nearly straight hooked i had to feather it a bit but not to much. i have to find the slip its around here somewhere if i recall the 60ft was like 2.1 sec might have been 2.0 seconds but i dont think so.

 

I think he was talking about the trans fluid... but the "purple ice" stuff works great too.. use it in my h/e

 

yeah we kind of almost jacked the thread with purple ice talk.

back on point though the synchromax trans fluid is amazing i used it in the nv3500 5spd trans in my old blazer xtreme and using an infared thermometer saw nearly a 20 degree drop in transmission case temperature. that pig ran hot as hell though. i never did that on my ss/sc though after the blazer i was sold.

they did a thing on horsepower tv where they changed all the fluids in a 02 camaro ss to royal puple.... gear oil,trans fluid engine oil and purple ice in the radiator and gained like 8rwhp.

not that i would suggest buying their products for an hp increase alone, it just shows that they make a much more effecient lubricant.

 

Only drove the car a little yesterday since I had a good buzz going from all the beer drinking while working on the car and a few other things.

Drove the car around more this morning and noticed the Syncromax also make downshifts a bit smoother even if your RPM matching is a little off.

I guess I'll be going after some purple ice next (:

 

I know everyone is talking about Royal Purple stuff here, but has anyone else tried any of Amsoil's products? Thats the company that synthetic oil way back in the day. I've had really good luck with their stuff.

I've used water wetter in my cooling systems, but if purple ice is that much better, I'll have to try it out.

What I really want is to get one of those Amsoil EaAu filters that are designed to replace the filters on AEM, K&N, Injen, and other performance intakes.

 

yeah man that amsoil **** is good stuff..

 

how often should the tranny oil be changed anyways? And is that purple ice stuff safe to just go in with the dexcool already in the system?

 

Any tips on changing the trans fluid for the SS/SC ?? (how to section was for 2.2/2.4 manual).