Eric,
I'm sure it is great oil for the intended purpose.
However, my personal approach is that an autocross formula ford is used
very much like a "short trip street car". Lots of warmup time (well maybe
not in Texas!!!) followed by "beat the heck out of it driving" followed by
a couple of weeks to even months of setting around. Therefore I use Mobil 1
street synthetic. I figure it has plenty of good stuff for both the
"racing" and the "street" needs.
Dick
P.S. Considering that my new job will prevent me from having a chance to
autocross my FF much if at all for a few years, anybody want to buy it? The
car with "stuff" would be about half the price of Tommy's Swift and
considering how well I've done with it with about half the talent of Tommy
or Stu (and probably much less than half the budget), it must be a really
fast car!!!
At 12:47 PM 3/7/2003 -0600, Eric Jones wrote:
>Hey Guys,
>
>I can pick up a few cases of this oil fairly cheap and was wondering
>if it would cause any problems with a FF engine.
>
>Here is the blurb Valvoline has about this oil:
>
>Using the Valvoline Specialty Racing Engine Oils, which are labeled
>as being "NOT STREET LEGAL", in your passenger car is not authorized. The
>results of using it in a passenger vehicle are 2 fold: The products have a
>minimal amount of cleaning agents to optimize the effectiveness of the
>power enhancing components so, if not changed with a very high degree of
>regularity (every 500 miles), it could cause engine related problems
>consistent with those caused by not changing conventional passenger car oil
>at the OEM recommended interval.=A0 This includes sludge and deposit build
>up, thickening, ring sticking, poor cold starts, and overall engine stress.
>Additionally, the product contains uniquely high levels of phosphorous that
>the catalytic converter is not designed to handle.=A0 Initially this will
>lead to reduced efficiency and over time it may damage the device to the
>point where State and/or Federal emission standards are not being met.
>
>http://www.valvoline.com/pages/products/product_detail.asp?product=3D95
>
>
>eric
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