Re: Alfa oil

["Raymond Boniface" <rjboniface@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Les

Interesting that you don't like Mobil 1.   Don't know how accurate, but the
GTV6 and BMW 325 racecars both showed oil pressure fluctuations on the
guages during  a race with Mobil 1.  This didn't happen with Redline.  And
the Valvoline racing (not synthetic) gives better pressure readings when
hot.

Ray
----- Original Message -----
From: "Les Singh" <Les.Singh@domain.elided>
To: <alfa@domain.elided>
Cc: "Raymond Boniface" <rjboniface@domain.elided>
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 11:07 PM
Subject: RE: Alfa oil


Ray

I use Valvoline exclusively. Earlier this year our Formula race car open
wheeler) cracked the block and lost all the coolant. Because the block was
history - the driver knew the problem because we had earlier after the first
race tried to patch up the crack - the driver decided to just "run the
engine to death" rather than lose places and finish out of the money.
Result - red hot engine, cooked pistons with beads of metal on them, but ...
crank, perfect, bearings perfect, just the tops of the rods near the pins
overheated. The oil we were using was Valvoline SynPower 20/50 Racing Oil.
In the GTV I use Valvoline 20/50 XLD and in the Alfa 75 Twinspark, Valvoline
15/40. The SynPower is expensive but great and I prefer it to say Mobil 1
which seems to thicken up under stressful conditions. Shell Helix is ok but
not the semi-synthetic stuff which slowed a 2.5 V6 of mine so much that it
would not idle until it was re-adjusted. I dumped the oil, put in Valvoline
and the idle immediately had to be slowed down by resetting to the original
position. Makes you think ... doesn't it?

Ciao tutti.

Les Singh
"The Green GTV"

-----Original Message-----
From: alfa-digest [mailto:owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided]
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 2:36 PM
Joe

I've always liked Valvoline 20-50 Racing oil.  Don't know what it'll do for
your consumption, but I have seen it give higher oil pressure readings when
hot on several cars.

Just rebuilt the GTV6 race motor, and the bearings were "good enough to
reuse,
if you believe in that" according to the mechanic.

Readily available at Pep Boys and many other places, at less than $3/qt.

Ray Boniface

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Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 22:28:57 -0400
From: Simon Body <body@domain.elided>
Subject: 91 Spider rear sway bar bushings

Greetings

I have the rear end of my Spider disassembled, replacing the shocks,
trailing arm and trunnion bushings. I bought rear sway bar end link
bushings as well but I'm wondering whether I should replace them. The
originals look like they are in reasonable, but not perfect, condition and
I've been unable to get the old ones off, but I haven't tried hard yet.

I'd appreciate the wisdom of the sages and prescients amongst us.

Simon

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