Torco Motor Oils

My opinion is I would rather buy from them than large oil companies for certain but the SR-1 to me , ranks with the likes of other mainstream OTC mostly groupIII synthetics in performance , excluding the Mobil Extended Performance of course .

They have very nice packaging though .

I can see your point Motorbike, but I still like helping the little guy over the big corporation. It's just the way I feel, nothing to do with that the corperation might put out a fantastic product, because there are things that I have no choice in using that are made from big companies. Well, onward and upward.

The product I was interested in from Torco was their 0w20 SR-5 racing motor oil. According to the technical department, it is Group IV & V combination, with a beefier additive package than whats in the SR-1, which is a Group III & IV blend. It's quite a botique oil in price level, coming in at almost $12 per liter, but I was hoping to get 10,000 mile OCI's out of it as compared to the 3000-5000 miles that I'm getting with my Renewable Lubes HOBS 5w30 oil. The difference in cost is negligable, as the HOBS oil is about $6 per quart after adding the shipping charges to it.

I have read on BITOG about the SR-1 product and would have to concur ith you on it's toughness being on par with what I could pick up on the shelf, that's what prompted me to the SR-5 product. Now I drive a Honda CR-V that does state the 5w20 requirement, but I have used 5w30 with no appreciable difference in mileage, but with winter coming on with my next OCI, I figured I'd give the 0w20 a chance to strut its stuff.

Any more comments will be greatly appreciated, along with maybe your personal recommendations.