[Biturbos4] Synthetic oil and coking?

[Grant]

This is correct.  full synthetics are test-tube oil - with the polymer 
chains created to be the same consistent length.  Parasynthetics are 
re-refined from dino base.  blends are just what they wound like.

Grant
On Aug 30, 2005, at 12:17 PM, Darin Nederhoff wrote:

>
> 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
>
>
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>
> 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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