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Subject: Fwd: Synthetic Oil
From: Nt788@aol.com
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 18:36:00 EDT
     Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 08:34:24 -0700 (PDT)
     From: henry nakata jr <aspenten@yahoo.com>
     Subject: Re: Synthetic Oil

a note on oils
henry

--- MikeLDrew@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 10/6/02 22:42:16, kent@ketell.com
> writes:
> 
> << Thanks for your input. >>
> 
> >>>Although I have zero first-hand experience with synthetics, I have 
> something even better--the ear of one of the head engineers at one of the 
> best engine shops in the world--Roush Racing.  He's currently working on a 
> project for Ford, directly in charge of development of the oiling system 
> modifications to the modular motor for use in the new Ford GT40.  This guy 
> knows oil!!!!
> 
> Over dinner one night, we had an hour-long conversation on "the best oil".
> 
> Over the years, this fellow has been in charge of performing comprehensive 
> tests of all the oils out there, tests which have sometimes run into the 
> millions of dollars.  They compared virtually everything--synthetic and 
> otherwise--in standardized tests.  These tests included running identical 
> motors on dynos for zillions of hours, simulating 100,000 miles of continuous
> running with NO oil changes.
> 
> Many motors failed to make it.  Of those that did, those with synthetics were
> in profoundly better shape.  In fact, he said that they dismantled the motors
> and found that many of them were total scrap, nothing could be salvaged,
> while those running the better synthetics showed relatively little wear,
> with some of them still being literally as good as new.
> 
> Over the course of dinner, he also revealed to me that much to his own 
> surprise, one oil stood head-and-shoulders above the rest in these tests--the
> original synthetic, which is Mobil 1.  He basically told me they concluded 
> there are really only two types of oils--Mobil 1 and everything else.
> 
> He also acknowledged that these tests were designed to push the extreme edges
> of the oil envelope.  Virtually any oil on the market is more than adequate
> for anything mere mortals like us will subject it to (including open-track
> duty) as long as it is changed reasonably often.  The worst-performing oils
> started to degrade in as little as 2000 miles, but most of the dino oils were
> perfectly good for 7500 miles or more, and the synthetics considerably longer
> 
> In the same conversation, he spoke of a test he had just been running to 
> compare different rear-end oils.  (The test had ended catastrophically that
> afternoon when a differential being spun at 8000 rpm (which equates to about
> 1000 mph) EXPLODED and destroyed the entire dyno cell.)
> 
> Since the test had cost them $350,000 to conduct, and was being conducted to
> come up with an 'edge' for their NASCAR teams, he wouldn't reveal who the
> winner was.  But he DID tell me that for anything that we mortals do, ANY of
> the rear end oils on the market is more than up to the job.  It just doesn't
> matter, period, dot, end of story.
> 
> Mike 

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