[Mgs] ZDDP Redux

[Eugene Balinski]

Valvoline VR-1 is a conventional API street approved
**(non-synthetic)** racing oil with ZDDP.  

http://www.valvoline.com/faqs/motor-oil/racing-oil/79

The other version of the VR-1 is apparently called
"non-street legal" oil" per the above.

FROM THE WEB PAGE:
"Valvoline VR1 Racing Oil contains .13 percent of zinc and
.12 percent of phosphorus compared to the Valvoline "Not
Street Legal" Racing Oil which contains .14 percent of zinc
and .13 percent of phosphorus."

Gene 

80B






On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:11:41 -0800
 Max Heim <mvheim at sonic.net> wrote:
> The reason for the repeated confusion is that in this
> case, the word
> "Racing" is just marketing baloney. VR-1 synthetic
> "Racing Oil" is
> apparently a street oil. I have not seen any reference to
> two different
> grades or types of VR-1 -- just different weights.
> 
> Traditional "dino" (non-synthetic) Valvoline Racing Oil
> is just that --
> racing oil, not recommended for street use.
> 
> --
> 
> Max Heim
> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
> If you're near Menlo Park, CA,
> it's the primer red one with chrome wires
> 
> 
> on 1/21/13 1:54 PM, Eugene Balinski at eugeneb at nni.com
> wrote:
> 
> > This is WRONG.  Valvoline VR-1 (street version) meets
> the
> > requiremets for modern cars.
> > 
> > From the web site "Valvoline VR-1 Racing Motor Oil is
> for
> > use in any car, light truck, van, or SUV where American
> > Petrolieum Institute (API) SN is recommended"
> > 
> > (http://www.valvoline.com/pdf/vr1_racing.pdf
> > 
> > Gene
> > 80 B
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:01:21 -0800
> >  Simon Matthews <simon.d.matthews at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Charley & Peggy
> Robinson
> >> <ccrobins at ktc.com> wrote:
> >>> Dunno why you guys don't just use Valvoline racing
> oil.
> >> 
> >> I think that this has already been discussed. Racing
> oil
> >> doesn't have
> >> the detergents and other chemicals  that are necessary
> >> when oil is
> >> used over a long period and not just for the duration
> of
> >> a race.
> >> 
> >> Simon
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