[Biturbos4] Synthetic oil and coking?

[Darin Nederhoff]

I don't believe that full synthetic motor oils use a petrochemical base.
The synthetics _blends_ certainly do have a conventional base but full
synthetics such as Mobil 1 and Amsoil do not.  

I have a video clip around here somewhere from the 2001 S-Car Nationals in
Colorado in which Jim Latour of Turbocharger Engineering Corp. of Golden, CO
talks specifically about synthetic oils and turbos.  I'll see if I can't
find it somewhere and post it on the site.

Darin Nederhoff
S-CARS.ORG


-----Original Message-----
From: biturbos4-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:biturbos4-bounces at audifans.com]
On Behalf Of j.koenig
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 8:56 AM
To: biturbos4 at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [Biturbos4] Synthetic oil and coking?

Contrary to what the name suggests, synthetic lubricants aren't made from
miracle 
unobtanium in the lab -- they're still made from petrochemical base stocks.
As such, I 
have to assume that they're still vulnerable to high-temperature breakdown
and 'failure' 
with coking probably included -- it just takes place at higher temperatures
than with 
'conventional' oils.
-- John

 

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