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06-17-2025, 06:07 PM
So, I'm coming up on 1,000 miles, and I need to do another oil change. Up to this point I've been running Castrol 10/30 dino oil. Just wondering if I should be thinking about changing to a synthetic, or a different dino oil. Anymore, I don't know anything about all the new oils.
On another note, I discovered something that I can't believe I never knew about after following the forums for the last 13 or so years, and all during my excessively long build of 10 years. I knew about riv-nuts, which are great for into any type of metal, but if you're looking into placing one in the fiberglass body, they're less than optimum. I just recently discovered "Plus-Nuts". They have a much wider shoulder on the exposed face, and the back side, rather than just mushrooming out, opens up like a drywall anchor in a Plus sign +, giving you a much more secure attachment. I found this out when one of my brake cooling scoops, which were riv-nutted under the front cowl, had one of the two riv-nuts fail on the way to cars and coffee about a month ago. The Plus +nuts are as easy as riv-nuts to install, but you can be sure of a more solid result.
I realize that this may be common knowledge to some, but since I never saw any info on these in over ten years, I figured someone else may be in the same boat.
On another note, I discovered something that I can't believe I never knew about after following the forums for the last 13 or so years, and all during my excessively long build of 10 years. I knew about riv-nuts, which are great for into any type of metal, but if you're looking into placing one in the fiberglass body, they're less than optimum. I just recently discovered "Plus-Nuts". They have a much wider shoulder on the exposed face, and the back side, rather than just mushrooming out, opens up like a drywall anchor in a Plus sign +, giving you a much more secure attachment. I found this out when one of my brake cooling scoops, which were riv-nutted under the front cowl, had one of the two riv-nuts fail on the way to cars and coffee about a month ago. The Plus +nuts are as easy as riv-nuts to install, but you can be sure of a more solid result.
I realize that this may be common knowledge to some, but since I never saw any info on these in over ten years, I figured someone else may be in the same boat.