[Fot] Break-in Oil

[Tony Drews]

Supposedly, Rotella T has dropped the ZDDP amount in the last couple of years.

- Tony

At 07:57 AM 4/4/2010, fpspitfire at comcast.net wrote:

>I'm a VR-1 break-in guy as well if I'm going to run the race 
>weekend.  If it's a new cam that needs to be broken in I use 
>Rotella-T then switch it out to VR-1.
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>After the first weekend I switch to Redline.
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>aaron
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>#87 HP Spitfire 1500
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>Southern Illinois Region SCCA
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tony Drews" <tony at tonydrews.com>
>To: "Mark Eginton" <markconsultation at twcny.rr.com>, fot at autox.team.net
>Sent: Sunday, April 4, 2010 12:52:10 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>Subject: Re: [Fot] Break-in Oil
>
>Valvoline VR-1 "Racing Oil", non-synthetic is available at many local
>stores and has plenty of ZDDP (0.12 percent or whatever measure they
>use for ZDDP).  I dump a little GM EOS in too for extra measure but
>it should be fine without.  The other recommendations are good to but
>probably not locally available.
>
>I run one weekend with the VR-1 and then switch to the synthetic
>version of the same.  Half the price or less of Redline or Joe Gibbs
>or Royal Purple.
>
>Tony Drews
>
>At 09:39 PM 4/3/2010, Mark Eginton wrote:
> >My new Isky grind cam came with a flyer recommending break-in oil
> >but I can't seem to find it anywhere, nor does any one seem to know
> >what it is. How serious is this? I'm hoping to irritate the
> >neighbors Sunday or Monday unless I have to order oil on the
> >internet. Left to my own device I would just run Castrol GTX 75k (30
> >wt) which had "almost" as much of the additives everyone thought
> >were necessary as the best (long FOT thread 12-18 mos ago) and I
> >love GTX. Decades of great luck; e.g. turbo SAAB with almost 200k on
> >it sparkling clean inside - original turbo - daily driver...
> >
> >Happy Easter for those who celebrate...
> >
> >M
>
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