<VV> Selecting an oil - humor

[J R Read_HML]

Castroil?  Isn't that the stuff your mother (maybe your grandmother) make 
you take when you were sick?  If it is for human consumption, probably not 
appropriate for your car.  <GRIN>

Later, JR


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Underwood" <tonyu at roava.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 2:34 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> Selecting an oil


> At 08:23 hours 05/27/2006, Sethracer at aol.com wrote:
>
>>  I have run almost
>>all brands of the Synthetics - excluding the "semis" of the last few 
>>years. I
>>have never been disappointed. Of course, the last oil that really 
>>disappointed
>>me was the Castrol 20-50 that I tried in a road race car. (Circa 1975) It
>>foamed to beat heck!
>
>
> That's not all.    It took little to no time at all in order for the stuff 
> to revert to its "lowest" viscosity, looked like water draining out of the 
> pan when I changed it because the oil pressure in the engine dropped from 
> 70 lbs hot (with Kendall GT-1 10-40) to around 40 lbs hot with the Castrol 
> 20-50 "race" oil.   It was terrible stuff and I didn't trust it in the 
> engine at all.    I gave it a fair chance; next time I changed oil 
> (Kendall again) I tried it again, same results, looked like water and 
> pressure dropped around 30 lbs.   I never used it again.    I'd had people 
> (mostly smallblock Chevy owners) swear that it was the best oil around. 
> Not sure where they got the idea unless they were parroting what they'd 
> been told by some guru or something, because the stuff was plain 
> untrustworthy.   This was in a 426 Mopar.   And no, the engine wasn't 
> *that* loose; the Kendall 10-40 worked out just fine, should have stayed 
> with it to begin with and not even tried the Castrol.
>
>
> I'm sure it got changed/improved later on down the line but in the mid-70s 
> the stuff was flaky.   Disappointing.
>
>
>>  It looked like a Chocolate Float was coming out of the oil
>>filler tube!  Valvoline Racing oil replaced it and worked fine. This was 
>>in a
>>racing application.- Seth Emerson
>
>
>
> No issues with Valvoline oil either.   :)
>
>
>
> tony..
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