I didn't say that Speedtalk would offer a detailed analysis....I was just looking for data.
I worked for a Valvoline engine lab where we ran engines for extensive periods of time, then tore them down and rated the bearings. However, we didn't have a fixture for dry starts. I was looking for that kind of data.
But you're echoing what we've all been stating....it's just a matter of opinion and it certainly doesn't hurt anything.
I will say this...
Just because someone runs an engine for years and years and "doesn't have a problem" doesn't lend much data for experience. I had a pair of Federal Mogul bearings de-laminate in a BBC that I built. I don't know if a piece of trash passed through or what, but I had no indication that
anything was wrong at all on the dyno. No increase in
oil temperature, no decrease in
oil pressure, nada. I didn't know anything until I checked the filter. My gut says that engine would probably have run for a long time and no one would have ever known the difference.
But, opinions are like.........blah blah blah.....
