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Originally Posted by Tachyon
The traditional school of thought was to use a non-detergent oil with no friction modifiers, so the rings had more friction to establish their wear patterns against the cylinder walls.
The people over at Bob is the Oil guy keep finding high concentration of Molybdenum in new cars when they preform a UOA, so that kind of blows the old school theory out of the water.
Frankly, I'm not sure what to believe any more.
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Wouldn't they be finding that from the engine being assembled with moly lube? Or am I totally off?