brad penn oil good or bad ????

**Renegade Cust Susp** · 08-23-2016, 10:55 AM

Brad penn

Originally posted by highflyer924 View Post

Think of switching to brad penn oil 20w50. Have always used 20w50 vr1 valvoline.

Made the switch from VR1 to Penn semi syn 20w50 over a decade ago and have had zero problems, oil comes out super clean and ran in sprint cars and modifiers. I prefer the Penn oil. And have run with and without coolers with no problems.

**truvahorse** · 08-29-2016, 01:55 PM

Valvoline VR1 best.

**over4T** · 09-08-2016, 07:13 PM

Most of the oils are pretty good these days. Used Brad Penn and was happy with that as I was with their predecessor, Kendall back in the '60s. Started getting a little pricey so went to Valvoline VR 1. A lot of friends use and like it, the price was right and I own stock in Ashland, their manufacturer. Win, win until the California EPA took it off the shelves in the auto parts stores. I stocked up on every case I could find before that happened. Recently been experimenting with Lucas non-syn and I'm impressed how clean it is after a few nights in our Super Stock and temps seem to be down a little. Sadly, the prices have started to skyrocket on that. too. Guess Forrest Lucas has to come up with more bucks for all the things he owns or sponsors.

**over4T** · 09-30-2016, 11:21 AM

Pulled apart one of my 13.5 to 1 engines yesterday for a freshen up. Had 42 shows on it and been sitting on a stand for over a year and only had Brad Penn in it from day one. Engine had been drained before storage and everything still had green coating everything. Bearings had little wear but will be replaced, crank ( a GM 1182 forged one I've used in 2 previous engines) is still standard and will take only a light polish, SRP pistons look like new and need only a little carbon cleaning off the tops. It definitely will stay on Brad Penn.

**Jeffery** · 10-18-2016, 01:54 PM

I have run Brad Penn, and VR1. Both worked OK. But after researching this topic to no end, I use CenPeCo 20W50.

I quit VR1 because itâ€™s a domestic/foreign oil formulation. Donâ€™t like the idea of my race car running on some blood from overseas.

Brad Penn oil and CenPeCo, are both oils from sweet, sulphur free crude wells. Bright parrifin base stocks.

CenPeCo is available down the street, nearest Brad Penn is a 90 mile round trip for me.

CenPeCo 20W50 is also about $6/quart. Last Brad Penn I bought was close if not $8/quart.

CenPeCo is hydrocracked to Grade III standards, their additives are almost double the 5 of anything else on the market. That information is hard to dig up on Brad Penn or VR1, for me anyway.

Just makes more sense and saves me money from what I can tell.