Re: OT - Diesel oil in gas engine

Posted by ObsoElitist on March 19, 2015 at 15:24:02 from (67.181.86.31):

In Reply to: OT - Diesel oil in gas engine posted by rrlund on March 19, 2015 at 14:57:03:

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Zinc (ZDDP )was killing catalytic converters in gasoline vehicles, so they reduced it drastically in oils rated SM and up. The change caused much damage to vintage auto racer's performance camshafts. I worked in the vintage Lotus racing business when they changed over, and we sold a lot of parts. It does the same to "normal" engines slower. Diesels dont have cats, so they didnt change their formulation much. I run diesel rated Delo or Rotella in all my pre-cat gas engines, and i have a lot of them

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