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dukeboy_318 said
When I was truck pulling and working for the team, we tried everything one could think of to squeeze power. Including oils.

The best advice, forget the advertising, send off your oil to a company that does oil sample testing. They can tell you the microscopic parts of metal that are in your oil and how well it’s protecting and lasting.

The filter brand is highly important as well, if you’re running a fram or Walmart type special, forget the oil supplements, upgrade the filters, then the oils.

Oil sampling is cheap and you might be surprised at the results.

I have no idea what oil the engine has now, and I am not sure about the filter either. I plan to paint the engine and in that process I also plan to have the valve cover off to wire brush it on top before the painting, and at the same time wash it inside. When that is done I will wash around where the filter sits, and replace the oil pressure sender which is coming and going as the tides in the Bay of Fundy.
The new filter will be a WIX 51515 filter, and the oil you have already seen after I tried to fool everyone but mostly myself with the RugDoctor cleaner. :D

Since we are into this conversation, in Norway there was one oil filter brand that was carried by all gas stations in the time I had my old Dart, and that was advertised as the ultimate oil filter. A lot of people used it, including me. So, my 170 cu.in Slant Six I had back then did not go on any other filter than the Fram PH8A I think it was still called that back in the 1980ties. I once ordered a filter with some other parts for my car and at that time I suspect it was for my 1971 Ford Torino, and ordered a Fram PH8A (since Ford and Mopar used the same filter), and the filter I got had no markings on it, but the same orange sort of Fram color, and I mounted it on the car, and was running the engine to get it warm, and suddenly the gasket on the filter blew, and it emptied the oil pan and the well, you can imagine how it looked like under the hood. Luckily I was gone for just a little, and it was still squirting oil when I came out. I never touched anything Framwise after that episode. Went over to Wix, and had no trouble anymore.

Bill