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[Spridgets] Ampco Top Cylinder Lubrication

Subject: [Spridgets] Ampco Top Cylinder Lubrication
From: bkitterer at me.com (Kitterer Bob)
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:40:01 -0800
References: <AANLkTiny81WZoeD6Y4jedvqE4fxra2eu25C3ncYJLMD2@mail.gmail.com> <87391.40753.qm@web83911.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
When I had a Judson on the 948 it used MMO.  After a couple of years of hard 
driving opened the engine up and the combustion chamber looked like it was new. 
 

Also have used MMO in the SU's.  You get a quicker response but need to add oil 
more often. 

Bob Kitterer

1960 Austin Healey Sprite (Mk IV in disguise) - in storage
1966 Austin Healey Sprite Mk III (Trevor) - still in boxes - in storage

On Jan 28, 2011, at 11:56 AM, Jay wrote:

> I remember those.
> 
> I have no experience with them, but my mentor on British cars alwats 
> recommended 
> using Marvel Mystery Oil in the SU's to give the cylinders at least some top 
> lubrication.
> 
> He was an engineer and racer from the 50's/60's so maybe this was some 
> influence 
> on him.
> 
> jay fishbein
> wallingford, ct
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Kirk Hargreaves <khargreaves2 at gmail.com>
> To: Spridgets <spridgets at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Fri, January 28, 2011 2:13:29 PM
> Subject: [Spridgets] Ampco Top Cylinder Lubrication
> 
> Under *10 Products You Didn't Know Existed* in the Moss motors catalogue
> comes this product that is purported to "increase the amount of oil in your
> cylinders, maximize compression, and enhance performance, protects against
> cylinder wear and extends engine life."
> 
> "Popular in the 50's and 60's and now back in vogue."
> 
> Have any of you seen this thing?  It is a bottle that holds oil. .  Marvel
> Mystery Oil recommended. .  which then shoots a fine mist of oil into your
> cylinder head.
> 
> It looks like nothing more than an oil reserve that attaches somewhere to
> your intake manifold to add more oil into the combustion mix?
> 
> This makes little to no sense to me . . as the "fine oil mist" would only be
> blown back out of your exhaust with little to no benefit to your engine?
> 
> Anyone have any comments on this device which according to Moss is "now back
> in vogue?"
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