Corvette Expert Recommends AMSOIL

Marc Haibeck of Addison, Illinois, near Chicago, services high performance Corvette ZR-1 engines exclusively at his shop, Haibeck Automotive Technology.

"The ZR-1 was a $26,000 option for a 32 valve engine for 1990 to 1995 Corvettes," said Direct Jobber Greg Finnican, also of the Chicago area. "There were only a little over five thousand of them made. Marc Haibeck is the most specialized person on the ZR-1."

Haibeck owns a 1993 Corvette ZR-1 with the LT5, 375 horsepower engine. "From about 1990 to 1995, this engine was the best performance engine made by Chevy," Haibeck said. "It reigned supreme in the automotive world."

Haibeck adds performance to the engines. "Everyone wants an extra 20 or 30 horsepower," he said. "Amazingly, there are a lot of people who want 100 to 150 additional horsepower."

The cars often are used in drag or road racing. "It's a lot of power," Haibeck said.

He started helping people enhance engine performance in the year 2000 and went full time in 2003.

"I'm the most specialized person in the world that works on these cars full time," he said. In fact, he said, there are only three other technicians that work on those specific engine in the country.

He has earned the respect of this group of elite car owners and his name often appears in online forums as "an opinion that counts," Finnican said. "I know Marc because I have a ZR-1."

Haibeck became interested in AMSOIL 10W-40 Synthetic Motor Oil (AMO) when he learned it is specifically designed to meet the needs of car engines with flat tappets, such as those in the ZR-1 engines. "That applies to the '60s muscle cars as well. The high-performance engines can't use today's oils," he said.

New API specifications do not meet the requirements of the ZR-1 engines. The removal of the EP additives make the oil incompatible with the LT5 engines, Haibeck said. "AMO conforms to the SG specification," he said. "I made a big discovery that as the oil evolves it doesn't necessarily get better; it's simply changing."

Haibeck began recommending AMSOIL 10W-40 Synthetic Motor Oil for the engines because "it is blended specifically to address this technical requirement. AMSOIL solves the problem."

He became a Dealer in September 2007. In his job servicing the engines and upgrading their performance, Haibeck recommends AMSOIL 10W-40 Synthetic Motor Oil to his customers.

"Many of my customers were using Mobil 1," he said. "I expected people to resist the AMSOIL, but I have not had a single person question my recommendation yet."

He said his reputation in the ZR-1 circle is possibly one reason why his customers take his recommendation without question.

He wrote a technical article for a Corvette magazine discussing the importance of using the correct motor oil for the ZR-1 engine and recommended AMSOIL 10W-40 Synthetic Motor Oil.

"My most valuable asset is my reputation, and if I do something like write that article, I have to be sure I'm right," Haibeck said. "The worst thing that can happen as far as I'm concerned is for my integrity to be tarnished."

He respects that AMSOIL motor oils are designed specifically to meet the requirements of the engines.

"I was happy to discover that AMSOIL provides a quality product based on the engineering requirements rather than the marketing requirements of some other motor oils," Haibeck said

"AMSOIL INC. warrants that the use of its lubricants will not cause mechanical damage to any mechanically sound equipment when AMSOIL INC. products are used in full compliance with the company's recommendations and instructions."

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