Hi Gang...there's an interesting article about oil in the March 2008 issue
of SCCA Sports Car magazine..page #52////..By the way I'm now useing Mobil
Full Synthetic 15/50 in my Spitfire Vintage Racer..... My Friend Ron
Chisholm of RM Pacific Motorsports at Infineon informed me that Jay
Ivey(noted engine builder) reccomends the mobil, or Redline...also, ..The
Porsche 962 Historic Race Cars that Ron does Track support for.. use the
Mobil 15/50 full synthetic
Racer Bud..Spitfire #21..Sonoma, Ca.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Murphy" <timmurph@fastbytes.com>
To: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>; "'FOT'" <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Fot] Engine oil, Valvoline VV211 vs VV851
> Nope, no reason at all. I just couldn't find those pdf's on their web
> site.
> The difference seems to be the calcium. Thanks.
>
> Tim
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>
> To: "'FOT'" <fot@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 1:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [Fot] Engine oil, Valvoline VV211 vs VV851
>
>
>> Is there some reason to not believe the info posted on Valvoline's web
>> site
>> ?
>>
>> VV851 :
>> http://www.valvoline.com/products/Specialty%20Racing%20Oils.pdf
>>
>> VV211 :
>> http://www.valvoline.com/products/VR-1%20Racing%20Motor%20Oil.pdf
>>
>> Hard to see any difference in those numbers, tho. The "Not for Racing"
>> claims .12% while VR1 claims .13% ... if there's any functional
>> difference
>> at all, it doesn't appear to be in ZDDP. Maybe it's in one of the newer
>> "anti-wear" additives ?
>>
>> Randall
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