I use Castrol R-40 Bean Oil. It smells good, and works pretty good.
Synthetic oil in a vintage race car? Isn't that illegal? Sounds like a
modern "improvement" to me. :-)
Vaughn
> ----------
> From: TR[SMTP:rodgers356@email.msn.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 1997 12:06 PM
> To: Marc Ablaza; vintage-race@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: synthetic oil for air cooled engines
>
> Don't know about VW, but Porsche now recommends synthetic oil and
> sells
> their cars with same. Of course soon they won't any longer be air
> cooled...
>
> Ted Rodgers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Ablaza <unitedps@mozcom.com>
> To: vintage-race@Autox.Team.Net <vintage-race@Autox.Team.Net>
> Date: Monday, December 15, 1997 5:32 PM
> Subject: synthetic oil for air cooled engines
>
>
> >Gene Berg, a foremost authority on VW racing engines, writes that,
> "We do
> >not sell or use synthetic engine oil for the air cooled VW as it
> rejects
> >heat. The air cooled VW depends on the oil to soak up the heat from
> the
> >head and carry it back to the oil cooler. With the synthetic oil the
> head
> >temperature went up and the oil temperature went down."
> >
> >How true are his claims on synthetic oil for VW engines? Currently,
> I am
> >using Castrol GTX 20-50 for my vintage Karmann Ghia race car. We
> change
> >the oil after every race and have not experienced any problems with
> the
> >engine. I am considering using synthetic oil like Mobil 1 or Castrol
> for
> >next season. Any opinions.
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Marc Ablaza (KG 1961)
> >Manila
> >
> >
> >
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