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If you guys had a choice of motors which one is better with less mainteance??? which one does not need timing belts or do they both need them??? And which is a better car the ones with the ea81 motor or the ea82 motors??? just trying to decide which one to buy, car that is.... Thanks

What is everybodys feelings on SLICK 50 and PROLONG. They all seem to have some sort of Synth addatives... I have used in my last car SLICK 50 oil addatives.. I used it every other oil change. Not as they indicate using it every 50,000 miles. I used this in a Chevy Celebrity 6cyl. My driving is very aggressive. I usally drive no less than 80 mph to having the speedo buried. I drive 40 miles to work one way and its not all highway driving. Its hills and alot of on and off the gas. I beat the hell outta that car and never never had a engine problem. Not even alot of oil consumption. I purchased that car with 42K and when I junked it with a trans failure it had 155K and the motor was fine. I was told this model 2.8 engine was a problem engine and no one could understand why the motor held up. After that celebrity I had a mitsubishi mirage 4cyl with 48K and didnt use that oil addative, now I know its just a 4cyl. But within the first 6 months I blew the manual trans out and 5 months latter the motor basically was gone. Boy that 4 poper would do 105mph on a straight a way. But it didnt like it everyday on the way to work. Pontiac sunbird dead motor ,no oil addatives used,died at 123K but had 3 head gaskets done before she blew. 78 Pontiac firebird, no oil addatives used ,motor blew twice and 3 trans. 1978 chevy caprice , no oil additives used and the motor blew after a month of taking that speedo needle from zero back to zero in a full circle. This caprice had a circle instrumentaion package. My mechanic said I should be getting paid for tetsing cars for the maufactures or driving nascar. Who knows... Now I have a Nissan Maxima and Im using Synthetic blend. But I dont think its as good as the slick 50 product. Oh forgot about the subaru. 84 wagon that the motor never fails with that slick 50. But subies never do fail it seems. That car because of driving habits only gives me 12 to 19 miles per gallon. Oh 178K on the clock.