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Scott68B
Scott Costanzo
Columbus, Ohio
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10/25/2007 11:30AM

Main British Car:
1968 MGB GM 5.3 LS4 V8

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Modern Oils & Older Engines
Posted by: Scott68B
Date: April 04, 2011 12:33PM

My next door neighbor is a Porsche enthusiast and a member of the local club. He has a beautiful 911 too. Anyway, he invited me to their monthly meeting yesterday at a local shop where a guy named Charles Navarro from LN Engineering gave a very interesting talk. One of the subjects he discussed was modern oils and issues with using them in older engines. He knows his stuff for sure and cleared up a lot of misconceptions on my part. He has lots of suggestions for working around the deficiencies of today’s oils. He implied that even modern engines could benefit by using oil with different formulations of ZDDP and detergents. There is a ton of information on his site which is located here [www.lnengineering.com]. This is probably old information for some of you but I thought I’d share it just the same. Not intending to start a debate either.

-- Scott


BMC
Brian Mc Cullough
Forest Lake, Minnesota, USA
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10/30/2007 02:27AM

Main British Car:
1980 MGB '95 3.4L 'L32' SFI V6, GM V6T5 & 3.42 Limi

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Re: Modern Oils & Older Engines
Posted by: BMC
Date: April 22, 2011 12:44AM

Thanks for the link Scott.

-BMC.


samuelsun
samuel sun
Elka Park, NY
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Re: Modern Oils & Older Engines
Posted by: samuelsun
Date: May 25, 2011 05:54PM

Hi,
Thanks for this kind info .... And also for link .
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flitner
John Fenner
Miami Fl
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03/11/2010 10:58AM

Main British Car:
1972 MGB 350 CHEVY

Re: Modern Oils & Older Engines
Posted by: flitner
Date: May 26, 2011 02:53AM

Been reading alot about this for bedding in my cam in a week or so,Heck All I knew was use ample amounts of moly lube on the cam and run it at different stages 2500,2000,1500 and rapping it up here and there just like I've always have, but this probably explains the heavy wear I've seen in recent tear downs that werent roller tappet.
Any thoughts on running Aeroshell with cam guard????


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