To: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Oily Tidbit
Cc:
Howdy, but isn't current thought that the rings need conventional oil to
seat, before we apply synthetic oil?
At 08:11 AM 5/2/00 , you wrote:
OK, here's another possibility. I ran Castrol
Syntec in a Honda four road racer for several
seasons and had no problems with it. I first used
it in a BMW road racer which had been running
organic oil. When I changed to the syn, I had to
reset everything because the idle went up about
700 rpm. My guess is, that meant less drag.
When I used it in the Honda, that was a fresh
engine and it never ran anything by syn. I don't
know what the running temperatures were, but the
syn was great stuff. Probably very close to what
Mobil 1 is.
Dick J
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