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    anyone know where to buy Teflon oil or PTFE?

    oh so ptfe is solid form? i thought it was liquid form. i was wanting to immerse my rc engine in ptfe for a week to reduce friction. I'll just try it with Slick50.
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    anyone know where to buy Teflon oil or PTFE?

    does anyone know where i can buy the chemical PTFE? what sort of store should i look to buy it from? i not going to add it to my car oil, but rather i want to coat my rc-engine crank/piston with it. i could buy slick 50, but i'd rather pure PTFE. cheers
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    what oil viscocity at 40deg C should 15/50 weight oil be?

    thanks for that, but i saw the link... http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/visc.html but i dont know how to read it... doesnt it say viscocity is about 200 to 250 for a 50weight oil?
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    Shifting Into 5th gear grinds at high rpms

    sorry i have no idea what viscocity oil the redline lightweight oil is, all i know is that it worked for me and about 3 other wrx's who complained of this problem
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    Shifting Into 5th gear grinds at high rpms

    i can't tell u what wrong, but for about 3 of my mates and including myself who have had crunching from changin gears, have all been "remidied" by putting in Redline Lightweight Gear Oil. cheers
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    Virgin Amsoil 10w40

    so was th VOA for the AMO or AMF? thanks :?
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    Warming engine - under load

    i let mine run for 5 to 10 minutes. on my previos car, which i had since brand new, and sold it at 40,000kms whenever i did a cold start i could hear tappet sound. this only went away after the car fully warmed. never knew what this was, but the car never missed a beat and had the noise since...
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    Synthetic Oil change intervals?

    look at this link http://theoildrop.server101.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=4;t=000256 they say 8000 miles is fine. and maybe even all they way up to 18,000 miles with a filter change at 12,000miles.
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    what oil viscocity at 40deg C should 15/50 weight oil be?

    this is for my motul 15/50. what should the viscocity be? thanks
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    Oil Analysis Labs in Australia

    E-monitor provide very little data. does anyone know a place that can provide more data in thier reports??
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    what is TBN?

    and why is this important in oils? how much TBN should ure oil have? should this show up in a UAO report, coz the report i got doesnt seem to show it, is it referred to as a different name?
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    2002 Subaru WRX Amsoil ASL 5w30 5174 miles

    we is australia run 98RON
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    Motul 4100 15-50 '99Subaru Wrx Sti 1000kms

    my big end bearings failed before, and was making a large ticking noise above 2000rpm. i used 15/50 for track day. it wass 37dec C , air temperature, track temeprature would prob been 100 deg C. yes normally i run 10/40 for everyday driving in my report it says "all wear level appear to be...
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    change oil after 1 track day?

    http://theoildrop.server101.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=001200 i got the UOA done....
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    what do you think of Motul 4100?

    I got an anlysis done on this oil http://theoildrop.server101.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=001200
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