Not too mention "Cato"...short for Catastrophic Failure in the Model Rocket
hobby. ie..bits and pieces everywhere. Joe???
At 04:16 PM 12/3/97 -0600, Alexander Joseph H wrote:
>There are two of us running "Mystic" oil, a semi-synthetic oil by the
>Cato Oil Company. Naturally skeptic, I am, but it seems to makes a
>difference. I use their service for oil analysis and the results seem
>very good, too.
>
>I am particularly skeptical about something call Mystic, BTW. But I am
>sold so far.
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>> From: Simon Favre[SMTP:favres@engmail.ulinear.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 1997 3:21 PM
>> To: jisbelljr@mail.utexas.edu
>> Cc: vintage-race@Autox.Team.Net
>> Subject: Re: Magnets on your petrol and Slick50
>>
>> You wrote:
>>
>> >Dont you see the irony of these two statements? Why dont the big oil
>> >companies make, and the car manufacxtuers use Redline and Royal
>> Purple
>> >Max? Must be something wrong with them, right? Personaly I have not
>> >seen that Redline did a thing to reduce the temperature in either my
>> >Lola FF or in my Jaguar XJS.
>>
>> Because the big oil companies make their own synthetic oils. Mobil 1,
>> Castrol Syntec, Valvoline synthetic, etc. etc. etc. There IS room for
>> competition, particularly in application specific areas like racing.
>> Making oil is different from selling snake oil.
>>
>> Temperature isn't the only issue. Wear is another. Synthetics can
>> reduce wear. OTOH, there are plenty of cars on the road that went
>> 200k,
>> 300, 500k with NO special treatment, magic elixer, or particular
>> attention. Having such a car proves nothing. Sometimes you just get
>> lucky. Wear is something that can be measured. Dyno results are
>> something else that can be measured. If you don't believe me quoting
>> the dyno results for Royal Purple, call the guy who sold it to me.
>> His
>> name is Roger Kraus and he runs a tire shop that provides race tires &
>> support for Northern Cal racers. He races a Porsche 944 in SCCA. His
>> number is (510) 886-4636. He ran the dyno tests on his own car.
>>
>> I had some specific wear problems in my race motor that the added film
>> strength of synthetic oils seems to reduce. I use Mobil 1 in the
>> motor.
>> I decided to try the Royal Purple in the transaxle on Roger Kraus'
>> recommendation. The particulates on the magnetic drain plug were
>> reduced.
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