Re: Dino juice

[IMRallyist@aol.com]

In a message dated 95-09-29 01:04:51 EDT, you write:

>> Mobil One is still Dino Juice, just modified.  
>
>Wha?  Please explain, as this differs from everything I have ever heard.
>Mobil 1 dino?  Huh?
>
>Robert Phillips

Paul is correct - almost all of the synthetic oils on the market today are
reformulated petroleum oil, known in the business as polyalphaolefin.  They
take petroleum, chemically break it down to the parts they want,
re-synthesize it, add additives, and viola, you have synthetic oil.  Since
petroleum is a mediocre lubricant, anything done to it is an improvement and
as we all know, these are very good oils.
The reason you pay so much more for Amsoil and Redline is that they are only
partially petroleum based. They are similar to diester oils, a chemical
imitation of bean oils.  (Remember Castrol R?  It was castor bean oil and the
best stuff to use in racing engines.  Think about it - CASToR OiL - that's
where the name comes from!)  Diester oils are far superior oils in just about
every sense than the polyalphaolefins, especially extremely high and low
temperature performance (hint, hint, turbo owners).
IMHO, Amsoil and Redline are worth the extra money.  I every test of oils
I've ever seen (engineering tests, not magazine articles), these oils have
come out ahead of all other commercially-available products.  I've been using
Amsoil for almost 20 years and I've never experience any oil-related
problems.  In my steet cars, I change the oil about once a year (~12k miles)
and more frequently in my racing cars.

My $.07
tom