Hey, I remember Steen C! No wonder it didn't work well in cars, it was for
two stroke motorcycles. It was the first synthetic for two strokes and it
saved many an engine for me. I was racing Pentons and maintaining a flock
of them, and steen C was the only thing that would keep them together when
you breathed on them as aggressively as I did. I used it in the Gearbox as
well, and you're right, it was hard to keep it on the inside.
Ring, ding, ding, ding.
-----Original Message-----
From: kas kastner [mailto:kaskas@cox.net]
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 9:32 AM
To: WEmery7451@aol.com; gregmogdoc@surfnetusa.com; vinttr4@geneseo.net;
fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Oil - what kind?
Okay you finally got me. My favortie oil was the type that FREE. I did
use a lot of Kendall, and Quaker State and also Valvoline all 20-50. and
very early on in the late fifties used a synthetic called "Steen C". It
would leak right straight through a cast iron block.
----- Original Message -----
From: <WEmery7451@aol.com>
To: <kaskas@cox.net>; <gregmogdoc@surfnetusa.com>; <vinttr4@geneseo.net>;
<fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 7:06 AM
Subject: Re: Oil - what kind?
> In a message dated 5/16/03 12:52:33 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
kaskas@cox.net
> writes:
>
> << I too am a Kendall guy. >>
>
> I guess that most of the oil opinion returns are now in. After
> hearing
about
> the two Pennsylvania oils (Quaker State and Pennzoil) being blown
> through
the
> same pipes and mixed together, I wonder how many differences there are
among
> the mineral oils. The only difference between Pennzoil and Quaker
> State
is
> what is done to them at the end (maybe just different containers).
> Many years ago, Quaker State was briefly taken off of the shelves
> around here
when
> a bad batch got out and gummed up a bunch of engines. I imagine that
> the synthetics are still being distributed in small enough quantities
> that
they
> are still unique. Most of the local car dealers and quick oil change
> businesses are using Pennzoil.
>
> I did have some relatively long lasting engines in past years
> (compared
with
> those of today) with nothing more than the stock oil systems. During
these
> years, I was using Big Daddy John Garlet's Kendall 20W/50 Racing Oil.
> I don't think that you can find it around here anymore.
>
> Years ago, this teacher use to show up at Nelson Ledges with an ugly,
> beat up, black bathtub Porch, which blew smoke. This car was also
> very fast,
and
> had Kluntz Synthetic oil in it. The teacher would get up in the
> middle of the night and put Kluntz decals on the Group 44 cars. As
> someone asked before, what type of oil did Group 44 use? Since Kas is
> a Kendall guy,
they
> must have used Kendall.
>
> Finally, does the oil make that much difference, or is it the
> meticulous
blue
> printing of the engines along with the right skills and facilities for
> a
near
> perfect assembly of them?
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