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Subject:Re: Re : synthetic motor oil
From:Stan Wilder
Date:Sun, 28 Apr 2002 08:35:30 -0500

high end automobile companies ...............
That sort of says it all.
I'm waiting the 8-15 K before I make the change, I'm setting that event
based on the metallic coloring I'm getting out of my oil filter contents
at oil changes. If the oil looks like fancy women's metallic nail polish
I just keep running dyno oil.
When I have to look real hard for that iron / oil blend I'll change.

Stan Wilder
83 Westfalia Air Cooled

On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 01:05:56 -0700 Tim <tim@CWO.COM> writes:
> I wonder if the final honing of the cylinders is different for
> synthetic as
> it is for dinosaur.
>
> Tim
>
>
> I have heard all the opinions on breaking in  new engines
> on synthetic motor oil, some pro some con. Most people feel that you
> should
> wait somewhere between 5 and 15 thousand miles until the rings set
> properly.
>
> There are however a couple of high end automobile companies that
> install
> synthetic motor oil at the factory in their new automobiles and
> who's
> engines never see anything but synthetic oil, one is Porsche the
> other I do
> not remember.
> Perhaps they know something we don't.
> clarence.
> 1990 multivan
> North Carolina
>

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