Oil labelling explained

[oilman]

Save your pennies for a decent oil

Cheers

[Monster GT-R]

I was told that some of the additives in any of those gimmick oil additives like slick 50 or any other snake oil, will eventually build up behind the rings in the grooves and prevent the gases from getting behind the rings and pushing them out to make your rings seal. They deposit in the highest heat and pressure zones. If the oil companies could make it any better they would have already. I have found that the additives for these snake oils have been primarily Molybdenum or Teflon.

[oilman]

General Remarks on Chlorinated Additives.

A number of ‘add-on’ additives intended to improve the performance of commercially available automotive lubricants have been marketed in recent years, under such names as ‘Xxtralube ZX-1’, ‘Metol FX-1’, ‘PPL Anti-Friction’ and ‘Activ-8’.All such products share the following characteristics with ‘X-1R Friction Eliminator’:-

1)They all contain chlorinated paraffin ‘exteme pressure’(EP) compounds first used in the 1930s in heavily-loaded industrial gearboxes, and in some automotive transmission applications, mainly hypoid gears.

2)They all corrode copper-based alloys at moderate temperatures, easily exceeded in all engine, and most transmission applications.This problem was recognised in the 1930s, and chlorinated compounds were never used in transmissions with bronze bearings or gears. No responsible manufacturer ever suggested using them in engines where their increasing activity at high temperatures could lead to piston ring corrosion and bore glazing. (For the same reason, modern ‘hypoid’ additives are not used in engines, even though they are much safer than any chlorinated additive.)

3)X-1R Friction Eliminator and its clones are based upon very outdated technology, which was abandoned by responsible lubricant manufacturers for automotive transmission uses in the 1950s. Chlorinated compounds still find applications in metal working, but their use is on the decline because of health and safety considerations.

4)When burnt, chlorinated paraffins produce corrosive hydrochloric acid, and organo-chlorine compounds including the highly poisonous phosgene gas. Apart from these corrosion and health hazards, with petrol engines the deactivation of exhaust catalysts is also a problem.

5)Unfortunately, these additives give spectacular results in simple EP test machines such as the ‘Falex’. As a marketing ploy, a demonstration of this type looks impressive to those not aquainted with the above facts. Also attractive is the low cost of chlorinated compounds, allowing profits of several thousand percent to be made.

Cheers

[Crail Loser]

Originally Posted by oilman

No, I don't know of a fluid that thickens with temperature.

Bisto!

[Boozilla]

hi there!

Can anyone help me about the amount of oil should be sufficent for my R32 GT-R exactly?
Since I am the only GT-R owner here, not even Nissan Dealerships could help me with that.

Thank you in advance

[oilman]

5ltr will do you a change with a little left over.

Cheers

Guy.

[Boozilla]

thank you for the fast response

[oilman]

No probs