Which Oil?
We tried a lot of so called miracle oils here, both on the dyno and in the field. It seems that when you do a lot of dyno testing that you inevitably get companies sending you their so called miracle oil which makes more power and protects better because of some new fandangled technology.
Well I never was one to believe any of these claims. The more we tested the more I was beginning to believe that all oils were the same and would simply tell my customers to run a good sythetic oil of there own choosing. If, when we dimantled the engine, there was plenty of oil inside I was happy, right? couldn't really expect oil to do more than that. I thought if it was there when we asked it to be there then great.
Recently one of our customers sent his engine back for a freshen up. I know this engine well as we run one ourselves. I also know very well what ours looks like inside when I take it apart to freshen it up.
The pictures below are of two pistons, one on the left is from this customers motor, the one on the right is from our motor. Same running time on both, same fuel. But two different oils. On the left Klotz R50, on the right a leading full synthetic racing oil!
Make no mistake about it, both have been run all season and are worn out. But the R50 piston on the left shows and measure to have significantly less wear around the top, both intake and exhaust sides have less scuffing. The rings are in better shape, the colour is better and it measures closer to original. The oil left inside the engine also felt different than I was used to. The sinthetic felt thin, the same as when it went in. The R50 felt really thick and sticky.
I had heard of Klotz castor based oils before and now after seeing this and the results of some futher tests, I'm a believer. We now recomend Klotz R50 in all our race engines!
