Fw: <VV> API and ZDDP & Brad Penn Oil

[BBRT]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "BBRT" <chsadek at comcast.net>
; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> API and ZDDP & Brad Penn Oil


 Great article, Bob.  You didn't mention Brad Penn oils, made at the 
refinery
 on Kendal St. in Bradford? PA where they used to make the Kendal GT green
 oil.  This oil is advertised as having the old additives, has the additives
 and is sold for racing, specifically for flat tappet cam engines. And it is
 green!  They also have a semi-synthetic oil.

 Chuck S
 BBRT
 YS73
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Vukas" <bowtieguy at cox.net>
>            About a year ago I read about the reduction of zinc dialkyl 
> dithiophosphate (ZDDP) in the oils supplied with API approval that could 
> affect sliding and high pressure (EP) friction in our cars. The reduction 
> of these chemicals in supplied oils was based on the fact that phosphates 
> reduce the effectiveness and eventually damage catalytic converters and 
> introduce minute amounts of pollutants into our atmosphere.
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>            A couple of months ago I had a member of the Columbia Gorge MG 
> Club bring a totally failed camshaft and lifters back to me that had only 
> 900 miles on them!! I immediately contacted the camshaft re-grinder (Delta 
> Cam) and asked how this could happen. They were well aware of this problem 
> as they were starting to have many failures of this type. In the past, the 
> lack of a molybdenum disulfide camshaft assembly lubricant, at assembly, 
> was about the only thing that could create this type of problem. My 
> customer has assembled many engines and had lubricated the camshaft 
> properly. Then the bad news came out: It's today's "modern" API (American 
> Petroleum Industry) approved oils that are killing our engines: Meaning 
> all flat tappet (cam follower) equipped engines, as used in all BMC 
> products, all British Leyland products, most pushrod engines prior to 
> 1980, early Volvos, American high-performance engines and many others.
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>>            Keith M. Ansell
>
>            Foreign Parts Positively, Inc.
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>            www.ForeignPartsPositively.com
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>            Kma4285 at msn.com
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>            360-882-3596
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> Bob Vukas
> bowtieguy at cox.net
> '64 Vert
> '57 Belair Wagon