<VV> Castrol Syntec / SOF - 7

[moonpie8n at comcast.net]

    Anybody  ever  hear  of  SOF-7  synthetic?  IT  was  around  in  the  late  '70s...... Sold  by "Old  World  Prods".  I  think  it  was  a "copycat" group  of  Amway.  You  put  it  in , and  the  engine  had  almost  no  oil  pressure [it  looked  like  "Mazola"].  

     I  would  break  the  engine  in  with  whatever  was ,"ON  Sale".  Then ,  drop  the  pan , ... change  to  the  high  pressure  pump, and  run  the  SOF -7.  WE  picked  up  about  200 rpm  this  way.  I  finally  quit  running  it  coz  it  made  me "Nervous".  I  wanted  the  200 rpm, but , we  had  a  lot  of  money  in  those  engines , and  I  couldn't  find  anybody  else  who  was  running  it......  BY  the  way , other  than  trying  the  SOF-7  , ... I  ran  nothing  but  Amalie  racing  oil  [Brad  Penn  now]. Never  had  a  bottom  end  failure...... 



            Bob  Isaac 

    Moonpie  Racing 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EVERETT WILSON" <aircooled6 at prodigy.net> 
To: "Chris & Bill Strickland" <lechevrier at earthlink.net>, virtualvairs at corvair.org 
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 1:02:11 AM 
Subject: Re: <VV> Castrol Syntec / ZDDP / SL 

The last time I was in to the local Auto-Bone, a month or so ago, they had the 
20w50 syntec on the shelf.  I bought enough to do both vairs. 

I have a bottle in hand, right now (no, not the Rum.  Why is the Rum always 
gone?) 

Anyhow... 

The front label on the bottle has a yellow box stating "Specially Formulated for 
Classic Cars". 
The rear label has the usual blah, blah, blah about how wonderful the oil is, 
but then there are two things: 

A yellow stripe in the fine print where it says: "Increased antiwear additive to 
help prevent flat tappet camshaft wear". 

Then, further down where it starts to list the API info, there is a sentence 
which reads: "Does not meet the emission system compatibility requirements of 
vehicles since 1993". 

It still shows API service SM/CF in the non-star circle and then API Service SM, 
SL, SJ, CF in text. 

Everett Wilson 
North Richland Hills TX 




________________________________ 
From: Chris & Bill Strickland <lechevrier at earthlink.net> 
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org 
Sent: Fri, March 18, 2011 4:20:44 PM 
Subject: Re: <VV> Castrol Syntec / ZDDP / SL 


>This is for Castrol Syntec 10w30 ... "Exceeds ... ILSAC GF-5, GF-4 and GF-3 
>and/or API SN, SM and SL" 
>   
> 

Therefore it is one of the "Energy Conserving" oils that is not Corvair 
recommended, as is typical of most 10W-30 oils aimed for the mass market 
these days. 

>amount of ZDDP levels in the Castrol Syntec 20w-50 classic   
>formulation is a minimum of 1200 ppm. 
> 

And so this begs the question, "Is this "20w-50 classic" still the same 
formulation that is currently in the market place?" 

Bill Strickland 
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