Kendall. I've used Kendall oil almost exclusively since the early '70s. I've used it in every competition car that I've had, including but not limited to: 1958 Speedster w/S90 engine, 1965 911, 914/6 w/ 2.6 liter S, 1977 3.0 Turbo, SCCA E/P 914, 911SC PCA Club Racer, 1969 911E PCA Club Racer. I've run almost 10,000 miles on the big track at Willow Springs Raceway, and I've won road races at Phoenix, Carlsbad, Riverside, Willow and... etc. My shop prepared a 914/6 for the IMSA 6-hour endurance race at Riverside Raceway in 1985. We started 63rd, and finished 17th. We prepared an SCCA B/P 911 many years ago, and that car went on to win championships. We never had an oil-related failure over all those miles, events, and wide variety of cars. I still use Kendall GT1 20/50 in my personal street 911, and still swear by the product. I used Kendall exclusively at my shop for 25 years, in thousands of '89 and earlier 911s and 356s. We never had a client suffer an oil-related failure. We discovered that a product called Kendall Blue Grease, a lithium based bearing grease, was tested, along with a half dozen other greases, by a leading race team in about 1990. They discovered that its rolling resistance was significantly less than the other greases tested, and used it in their wheel bearings from then on. At that time we had already been using Blue Grease for more than a decade - every front wheel bearing on every one of my cars was packed with it. We never had a bearing failure, nor did we see significant deterioration of the grease. We used Kendall 3-Star trans oil in all 915 and earlier gearboxes. Our customers blew up their synchros just as often as anybody else, but trans bearing failures, especially from '72, were almost unheard of. My only complaint regarding Kendall products is it is just too darned hard to find!
Pete
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