castrol R oil
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Any one using castrol R oil in there turbo engines ????

darrell

SON, WHATEVER FANCY SHIT YOU'VE GOT UNDER THAT BONNET, SEEN IT A MILLION TIMES

is that the castor based stuff?

if so Hedgemonkey rates it highly although he's gone down the supercharger route.

in my opinion keep away from it

it will gum the rings up solid !

you dont hear of top race touring race cars.....etc... using it

what would you recomend then?
is the old stuff like halfords (duckums in a differnt tin i think) 20w/50 mineral oil any good for turbos?
i use it in my N/A 998 with STP and its fine with it!

cheers
josh

My build thread..

http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=542985

but it smells so nice mmmmmmmm

J

it does smell very nice

SON, WHATEVER FANCY SHIT YOU'VE GOT UNDER THAT BONNET, SEEN IT A MILLION TIMES

We are talking very frequant oil changes for castrol R are we not? my dad runs it in his motorcross bikes and changes it every meeting.

Not for a turbo application... it will burn in the turbo lol

Its also a poor lubricant... hence the world has moved forward, why won't mini owners lol

Alex

AlexF

millers 20/50 cvt is the best to use imho

always looking for them bigger bunches of bannanas

Castor has the highest film strength of any oil and according to an oil scientist chum of mine (I'm just a chemicals expert!) it's the best engine oil for gears. Castor gets my thumb up and it's right, you have to warm it up carefully before you thrash it and the blow by products and condensation will make it form gums. So, if you run an evacusump and say your oil is about 76 deg C (ish) you can pull most of that shit off. I agree, I wouldn't use it without some sort of suck on the sump. It would gum up loads. Thing is you have to maintain it, change it, check it, bit like a hi-po engine really. Not really fit and forget like my mums saxo.

My best oil was cheap £3.50 a gallon 20/50 multigrade filth, I had an oil leak I couldn't be fucked to fix and it was like doing an oil change every 3 days. The engine was immaculate when I stripped it.

Minis like R for the cogs, legend has it they don't like synthetic. I'm running valvoiline at the moment and it's rather smelly.

Mobil 1 smells nice.

I will be using R though and in the short period it will take for my engine to shit itself, I will tell you how I got on. Engine is in the car at the mo but there are loads of other things fucked on it :(

Stu

Bugger off, I'm getting there.