If you go to Border's bookstore or Barne's and Noble, they sell a nice magazine called Race Car Engineering (might have the title slightly off). It's a very high quality magazine that covers all technical aspects of all types of racing. Long story short their was a whole section on Lubricants and Shell was the featured company.
They talked about how closely Shell works with Ferrari with their Lubricants. Because of BITOG and guy's like Molekule, I understood the entire article. They mentioned Esters as top tier basestocks and how PAO's are becomming or became the choice due to cost and performance. They also mentioned how many syn lubes are PAO and Ester.
What I found interesting was that they talked about how FM's are becommning more and more important and research is big in this area, stating fuel economy as a reason. The article stated how Moly wasn't soluable at one point but formulators got beyond that and it's now used in many oils.
*Most interesting IMO was the part about how delicate the process is to formulating with certain additives. You can't just throw more Boron, more Moly and this and that and expect it to work. It's not that simple. It was said that adding to much of certain additives can have negative effects in certain cases and that extensive research in the lab and field testing is required. So if you get a chance, check out the magazine. I was in heaven at the bookstore when I noticed the article.
They talked about how closely Shell works with Ferrari with their Lubricants. Because of BITOG and guy's like Molekule, I understood the entire article. They mentioned Esters as top tier basestocks and how PAO's are becomming or became the choice due to cost and performance. They also mentioned how many syn lubes are PAO and Ester.
What I found interesting was that they talked about how FM's are becommning more and more important and research is big in this area, stating fuel economy as a reason. The article stated how Moly wasn't soluable at one point but formulators got beyond that and it's now used in many oils.
*Most interesting IMO was the part about how delicate the process is to formulating with certain additives. You can't just throw more Boron, more Moly and this and that and expect it to work. It's not that simple. It was said that adding to much of certain additives can have negative effects in certain cases and that extensive research in the lab and field testing is required. So if you get a chance, check out the magazine. I was in heaven at the bookstore when I noticed the article.
