There are two of us running "Mystic" oil, a semi-synthetic oil by the
Cato Oil Company. Naturally skeptic, I am, but it seems to makes a
difference. I use their service for oil analysis and the results seem
very good, too.
I am particularly skeptical about something call Mystic, BTW. But I am
sold so far.
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> From: Simon Favre[SMTP:favres@engmail.ulinear.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 1997 3:21 PM
> To: jisbelljr@mail.utexas.edu
> Cc: vintage-race@Autox.Team.Net
> Subject: Re: Magnets on your petrol and Slick50
>
> You wrote:
>
> >Dont you see the irony of these two statements? Why dont the big oil
> >companies make, and the car manufacxtuers use Redline and Royal
> Purple
> >Max? Must be something wrong with them, right? Personaly I have not
> >seen that Redline did a thing to reduce the temperature in either my
> >Lola FF or in my Jaguar XJS.
>
> Because the big oil companies make their own synthetic oils. Mobil 1,
> Castrol Syntec, Valvoline synthetic, etc. etc. etc. There IS room for
> competition, particularly in application specific areas like racing.
> Making oil is different from selling snake oil.
>
> Temperature isn't the only issue. Wear is another. Synthetics can
> reduce wear. OTOH, there are plenty of cars on the road that went
> 200k,
> 300, 500k with NO special treatment, magic elixer, or particular
> attention. Having such a car proves nothing. Sometimes you just get
> lucky. Wear is something that can be measured. Dyno results are
> something else that can be measured. If you don't believe me quoting
> the dyno results for Royal Purple, call the guy who sold it to me.
> His
> name is Roger Kraus and he runs a tire shop that provides race tires &
> support for Northern Cal racers. He races a Porsche 944 in SCCA. His
> number is (510) 886-4636. He ran the dyno tests on his own car.
>
> I had some specific wear problems in my race motor that the added film
> strength of synthetic oils seems to reduce. I use Mobil 1 in the
> motor.
> I decided to try the Royal Purple in the transaxle on Roger Kraus'
> recommendation. The particulates on the magnetic drain plug were
> reduced.
>
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