Originally Posted By: bountyh
Originally Posted By: demarpaint
Originally Posted By: bountyh
Originally Posted By: hate2work
Bounty, I found this old thread dealing with ZDDP, maybe something in there will help you...someone in there was talking about what he used in his bike.
http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=984552
Thanks, interesting but I was actually looking for a reasonably priced additive to restore the same performance oils had prior to their castration as opposed to going out and spending $15/quart for new oil when I have multiple cases of very good oil (Castrol GTX, Valvoline Synpower, Formula Shell, Quaker Synthetic, etc...) which will work fine except I really don't want to run without the ZDDP protection.
Red Line Break In Oil additive will boost the ZDDP levels. 1 OZ/ qt of oil will give it a nice kick.
Depends how you define a nice kick. From another source about Redline zinc additive:
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otakar wrote:
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Here is another source which is a bit cheaper, because one 16oz bottle treats 12 quarts.http://www.redlineoil.com/products_motoroil.asp?productID=122&subCategoryID=1&categoryID=1
Interesting. I did a search and found a post about the Redline additive on another forum saying this:
http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1149831
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i already taked with dave: zinc 9000ppm and phos 7500 ppm and no moly
For the concentration in the 16 oz bottle.
Assuming you dumped the whole bottle into five quarts of oil, the resulting Zinc levels would be about 900 ppm. I'm not really sure how I could see that one 16 oz bottle treating 12 quarts.
The full 16 ounces in five quarts gives a 900 ppm lift, which means one ounce per quart (a five ounce add) bumps it about a 300 ppm bump. Pretty negligible.
I had run some numbers with a well respected BITOG member, and here is what he came up with:
One ounce per quart is going to boost a typical SM (about 700 ppm phos) to 1275 ppm. That is by no means extreme. That is lower than advertized levels for Valvoline VR-1.
I called Redline myself and confirmed those numbers.