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Old 04-04-2007, 02:01 PM
Kestas Kestas is offline
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I actually tried to post the scanned test results, but even pdf'd the file size was too big.

Of course, we're only talking about only one facet of oil performance - boundary lubrication. This is important during startup and during ring travel reversal, which gives you that 'ridge'. Red Line Race 30W actually stood out above the others in the test results that I have. I'm not surprised, it's a racing oil, and racing engines have a lot of metal-to-metal contact during use. But I don't recommend it for street driving.

One sleeper oil in these tests is Exxon Superflo (same as Mobil 5000?). It also has organomoly additives and stands out well in 4-ball testing.

We should remind others reading this thread that there are many other factors that go into an oil's performance.... shear stability (staying in grade), oxidation resistance at temperature, scuff healing (ZDDP), detergency (keeping contaminants suspended instead of depositing on engine surfaces).

Perhaps the administrators should move this topic to BITOG .
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