well it sure seems like superior stuff to me with my limited use of it
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From: <TIGEROOTES@aol.com>
To: <kregkallenberger@home.com>; <alpines@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2000 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: oil pressure/ RedLine oil
> RedLine full synthetic racing oil surprised me too. A few years back,
we
> towed a 1959 Austin Healey Sprite from Seattle to the Sprite-Mini
Challange
> at Sears Point Raceway in Napa Country for the Thanksgiving race.
> Due to some machine shop screw-ups, we only had time at home to run
the
> engine long enough to break-in the camshaft: talk about deadlined! It had
> Havoline or another standard oil in it for the break-in period.
> When we took the car out for practice laps on the Friday before the
event
> at Sears, in spite of the weather being in the mid to high fourties and
> windy, once the engine got hot the oil pressure dropped to an
uncomfortable
> low. We were ready to pack it in and go home, but I changed the oil to
> RedLine and sent the car out again.
> From that point on, the oil pressure ran right where it should have,
> around 40 lbs at an idle and 70 at speed. This Sprite had been seriously
> modified, and the Stewards bumped the car into the next higher class: we
> qualified second, and won the race.
> Jim Leach PTC Seattle
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