What's the best 2-stroke oil?

My mother is a naturalized us citizen, formerly swiss. She taught me date and time with the germanic system, which uses day month year. The time is a bit different too. One you get past fifteen after; the base reference becomes the hour coming next. IE 8:20 is expressed as 'ten minutes to half of nine'. Took me a little while to switch over to the conventional US system. I still verbalize it in the germanic manner from time to time. Usually I get dumb looks, occasionally the other person happens to have a European background and an interesting conversation results.

 

So I tested the Lucas, vs the amsoil sabre. Back to back, the amsoil smells better. J know they both protect and perform the same, but if I'm going to be smelling the 2 stroke exhaust, it might as well smell really good.

Maybe I try out some klotz, as I fondly remember that smell from my dirt bikes.

 

OK, I mixed up some Amsoil with VP94 @ 32:1 and ran a full tank of it. I pulled the plug and looked through with a borescope. Not as much oil as Lucas leaves, and my somewhat clean piston isn't so clean anymore. It started turning black on top, so I will not be purchasing any Amsoil.

VP with Lucas smells more like VP 2 cycle than VP with Amsoil ............ so my cabbage is still on my opinion that VP is using Lucas for their 2 cycle mix fuel

I still think R50 or Motul 800 is the best way to go. They both coat the internals very well, they both cleaned off the tops of the pistons, R50 smells better, but everything smells good with VP !

H1R got ruled out due to having some non adjustable carbbed engines running too lean with it. Actually had a lean bog with it in a few different engines.

 

Good info. I won't have to wonder about amsoil.

 

OK, gas with ethanol stinks. You mix oil with it, it still stinks.
I grew up with Sohio octron and boron, sunoco 260, and fuels like that. Boron was pink and smelled awesome. The closest I've come to that these days is AV fuel. Mix it with amsoil and the whole neighborhood wakes up.
Now though, I get marine gas, no ethanol. Smells good no matter what I mix it with.

 

It's all e10 around here, except aviation or race gas. Is been that way for about 20 years. Amsoil sabre in e10 smells good. So does klotz and I'm sure others. Skidoo oil smells good in e10 too. I'm sure there's others.

 

Anybody try shindaiwa red armor yet? I've torn down 3 saws that were running it and the coating is ridiculously good. My piston skirts have oil all over them and the bottom end is coated well too. Seems to burn good too.

I have a couple quarts of syn Repsol that doesn't seem to have much residual value, burns fine. I only have a little left and that will be the last of it.