Synthetic oil

[Jim Green]

--- Chander Balakrishnan <balakrishnan3 at comcast.net>
wrote:
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> By the way, Castrol Syntec is not really synthetic.
> They use a highly
> refined mineral oil as the base stock (group III).
> That is relatively
> recent, just before Castrol was acquired by BP.  I
> work for BP, in a
> business unit that makes Polyalpha olefin and the
> raw material used to make
> PAO. PAO is the true synthetic base stock (used by
> M1 etc.).  PAO is made
> from a small range of alpha olefins - in the C8 -
> C12 range (mostly C10 -
> decene) as the raw material.  And these alpha
> olefins are synthesized from
> ethylene.
>
> Where does one buy Rotella from ?  I have been
> buying M1 15W-50 from
> Wal-Mart in 5qt jugs, for about $ 18.  IS Rotella
> cheaper ?

Ok, after running that through a translator :) I
understand.  Wal-Mart sells regular Rotella, I looked
up a dealer on the net that sells syn.

Later,



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Jim Green
'89 90tq 034EFI Stage II
http://www.mswanson.com/~jgreen/car_home.html

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