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Originally Posted by chris719
I agree. Blackstone is nearly useless for the average person other than to optimize your OCI if you are paranoid. It's cool, but I've seen pristine Blackstone reports from an S65 engine that blew up 10k miles later.
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Not true at all. Sure, I will agree that a good Blackstone report won't keep you from blowing up your motor....nothing will.
But if you can get several reports done over a period of time in order to establish a baseline, if your "normal" readings start trending out of range, their reports will let you know that you are getting more fuel than normal in your oil (leaky injector), you are getting coolant or combustion gas particles in your oil (head gasket issue), you have abnormal amounts of lead/tin/brass in your oil (bearing issues), etc, etc, etc.....and then you can address the issue before it destroys the motor.
But I agree....one single test sample doesn't tell you much....you need several to establish a baseline for your motor.