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View Poll Results: What synthetic oil brand do you use in your cars or your bike. You choose more than 1
Amsoil 350 24.32%
Mobil1 551 38.29%
HD SYN3 296 20.57%
Royal purple 60 4.17%
Shell 17 1.18%
Castrol 85 5.91%
Penziol 14 0.97%
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They also make the VR1 in syn (black bottle)

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20w50 conventional 81 fx and 78 ironhead been using in all my motors for 40+ years just my 2 cents
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