So, low zinc 5w30/SN is only an American thing? What about the Russians catalytic converters...From the several 5w30 samples I looked at they seem loaded with AW.. do they have cats? Or did they fall apart from the high zinc levels.
I was impressed by thoroughness and organization of the website as I could navigate without knowing language. The Redline 5w30 was listed under racing oils but picture was of standard bottle. Noack was 5.3.
Ester based oils are sport oriented because of high thermal stability and great adhesive properties. There is one more thing- price, it's far away from VHVI based oils. So there's no need in esters just for riding work-home.
If there's smth interesting in those VOAs&UOAs, i can help u
Total quartz 9000 energy 0w30
Elf Excellium full-tech 0w30
both are the same oil.
There's an analysis in the picure below, buth the TAN and SAPS are so much away from any other oil I can't trust the results. Noack is sadly missing aswell.
This post here on BITOG under European Import Oils has an organized and table forum of many virgin oil analysis of different weights. It also includes translation of Russian specifications.
Bump up. I know it is in Russian but site has extensive list of virgin oil analysis.
This post is under European oils but has extensive list of tables with virgin oil analysis. https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbthr...ll_#Post4171211
Bumping up-I know it is in Russian but I really like the organization of oil analysis on their website and they include noack numbers on many of the oils . For example, Redline 5w20 5W30 and 5w40 has noack of 5.5. This is the link to many of the oil analysis.
The units and standard number (method) tell me mostly what I need to know. That and the periodic table.
Eg units are "%" and method is "5800" then that is Noack Volatility.