Honda CBR 1000RR Oil Analysis

Updated November 2006

In some of my other articles such as the Repsol Lubricants and Oil Change pages, I've briefly discussed oil analysis.  As mentioned in those articles I've gathered some oil analysis information and had some analysis performed personally.  A member from the www.1000rr.net message board works in the oil analysis industry.  He was able to analyze several new from the container samples of oil including Honda's GN4, HP4, and HP4M 20W-50 as well as Mobil 1 15W-50 Red Cap and Extended Performance (Gold Cap).  This member was kind enough to send the results to me for comparison.  I personally sent a  new from the container sample of Repsol 4T 10W50 Racing oil to www.oaitesting.com for analysis as well as a used sample of Mobil 1 15W50 Extended Performance from my 1000RR.  Once I have as many miles on the Repsol 4T racing as I did on the Mobil 1 I'll send it off for analysis as well to see how it held up and to compare it to the Mobil 1 used sample.

One interesting piece of information to note from these analyses is the amount of Molybdenum (Mo) in the Honda samples, especially the HP4M.  What makes that so interesting is that the owners manual for the 1000RR recommends NOT using oils containing Molybdenum additives as they have adverse affects on the clutch such as slipping and premature wear.

Thanks to all those who have donated to this site or purchased HooliganBIkeTech Gear as those funds made these tests possible.

Aluminum Barium Boron Calcium Chromium Copper Iron Lead Magnesium Molybdenum Nickel Phosphorus Silicon Silver Sodium Tin Zinc Potassium Vanadium Titanium
Al Ba B Ca Cr Cu Fe Pb Mg Mo Ni P Si Ag Na Sn Zn K V Ti

Oil Analysis Comparison Table
Virgin Samples 

  Mobil 1 Mobil 1 Honda Pro Honda Pro Honda Pro Repsol YPF
  M1 Red Cap M1 Extended Performance GN4 HP4 HP4M 4T Racing
  15W-50 15W-50 EP 20W-50SJ 20W-50SG 20W-50SG 10W-50
V100C 17.82 18.30 17.50 17.48 18.24 16.48
TBN 10.56 9.98 6.66 6.36 5.53 8.71
Al 2 2 1 2 7 0
Ba <1 <1 <1 <1 <1 0
B 229 298 242 243 246 165
Ca 3356 3194 2213 2105 2021 303
Cr <1 <1 <1 <1 <1 0
Cu <1 <1 <1 <1 <1 0
Fe 2 1 1 1 <1 1
Pb <1 <1 <1 <1 <1 0
Mg 23 16 15 10 11 943
Mo 91 95 61 70 528 1
Ni <1 <1 <1 <1 <1 0
P 1418 1297 1001 1004 1457 1080
Si 6 6 7 6 10 4
Ag <1 <1 <1 <1 <1 0
Na <5 8 <5 <5 <5 0
Sn <1 <1 <1 <1 <1 0
Zn 1489 1447 1069 1090 1125 1113
K <5 <5 <5 <5 <5 0
V <1 <1 <1 <1 <1 0
Ti <1 <1 <1 <1 <1 0
% Fuel N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
% Water N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Soot/Solids N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Glycol N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
OXID N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
NITR N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

 

Oil Analysis Comparison Table
New Vs. Used Samples

 

NEW SAMPLE

USED SAMPLE
(4345 Miles/192 Days)

NEW SAMPLE

USED SAMPLE
(5003 Miles/359 Days!!!)
  Mobil 1 Mobil 1 Repsol YPF Repsol YPF
  M1 Extended Performance M1 Extended Performance 4T Racing 4T Racing
  15W-50 EP 15W-50 EP 10W-50 10W-50
V100C 18.30 12.53 16.48 10.44
TBN 9.98 7.14 8.71 4.49
Al 2 79* 0 84*
Ba <1 0 0 0
B 298 164 165 103
Ca 3194 2552 303 473
Cr <1 1 0 1
Cu <1 12 0 18
Fe 1 50 1 62
Pb <1 1 0 1
Mg 16 30 943 801
Mo 95 74 1 9
Ni <1 0 0 0
P 1297 964 1080 915
Si 6 21 4 21
Ag <1 0 0 0
Na 8 0 0 3
Sn <1 0 0 2
Zn 1447 1271 1113 1059
K <5 0 0 0
V <1 0 0 0
Ti <1 0 0 0
% Fuel N/A <1 N/A <1
% Water N/A 0 N/A 0
Soot/Solids N/A N/A N/A N/A
Glycol N/A NEG N/A NEG
OXID N/A N/A N/A N/A
NITR N/A N/A N/A N/A

*The high aluminum (Al) content is surprising.  The 1000RR must have a lot of aluminum internal components that take time to break in.

Click the links below to see the results from OIA Testing on the analyses I had performed:

-Speedy

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