SAPS is a marketing Buzzword. The word is never used as part of the technical specifications by the the oil licensing agencies. ILSAC, ACEA and the API do not use the word SAPS in their performance standards. The word is used in promotional literature and press releases to simplify the concepts for morons like you that can't understand the real chemical terminology. The technical literature does not use this word.
No that proves you are a moron.
What you are to dumb to realize is that oil formulated for low sulfated ash may be harmful to catalytic converters in gasoline engines. Many oils like the ACEA C class oils are formulated for both diesels and gasoline engines and that may present problems because the two types of engines have different chemical needs.
It is only a problem when the phosphorus gets to the converter. If it stays in the engine it does no harm to the converter. If you could read you would see that there is evidence that the oil the marketers are pushing as "low SAPS oil" can cause more phosphorus damage to converter than oil that is not being marketed as low SAPS.
How did that show I was wrong. You just keep bringing up one non-sequitur after another. The GF-5 oil is not going to be marketed as low SAPS oil.
If you look at the API specification on the oil bottles. You will see many of the oils that are being advertized as "low SAPS oils" have both API CJ-4 and API SM/SL designation. People are using those oils in their gasoline passenger cars.
No its only been a little more than 2 years since the CJ-4 oil started showing up on the shelves. And using that oil in a Natural gas engine has been found to be very harmful.
It may not be important to a moron like you but to someone who owns a natural gas engine might be interested.
What's been 15 years? You d "Over enthusiastic oil changing can cause premature catalytic convertor failure."
What the heck does all this babbling about SAPS got to do with that foolish statement?