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Was talking to @AEHaas about some comments he shared with me from Terry Dyson with respect to the RLI oils he's been using in his Ferrari. One of the comments made was about the HOBS base oils that RLI uses, which have extremely high natural VI's (212 average according to RLI). This comment was in reference to an observation I made, that the oil didn't appear to have any traditional FM chemistry in it. No Moly, no Titanium. The lab didn't test for Tungsten.
The comment was (paraphrasing) that the different "cuts" of the HOBS base oils provided some inherent level of FM, which, while odd sounding to me, I'm not going to discount out of hand.
Mention was also made about a lack of conventional PPD's being required/employed (which I'm not surprised about).
A bit of searching found this article:
Jan C.J. Bart, ... Stefano Cavallaro, in Biolubricants, 2013
From here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/oleic-oil
Sounds very marketing-heavy from RLI, but I don't see any mention of FM function.
Also found the comments about some of the performance challenges interesting.
Would love to have some input from @MolaKule and @High Performance Lubricants on this. How much is hype, how much is legit performance?
The comment was (paraphrasing) that the different "cuts" of the HOBS base oils provided some inherent level of FM, which, while odd sounding to me, I'm not going to discount out of hand.
Mention was also made about a lack of conventional PPD's being required/employed (which I'm not surprised about).
A bit of searching found this article:
Biolubricant product development
Jan C.J. Bart, ... Stefano Cavallaro, in Biolubricants, 2013
(redacted ... copyright)
From here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/oleic-oil
Sounds very marketing-heavy from RLI, but I don't see any mention of FM function.
Also found the comments about some of the performance challenges interesting.
Would love to have some input from @MolaKule and @High Performance Lubricants on this. How much is hype, how much is legit performance?
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