Originally Posted By: buster
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A good Aussie story goes like this…
After nine Bathursts, a reputable business in the industry of high performance and a love for engine building, a man had become on a first name basis with some of the head lubrication engineers of Australia. Through constantly seeking the best advice, tweaking and manipulating lubricants to get the best results, the man learnt much about the industry and what it needed. The game after all, was about winning. There weren't always answers to lubrication problems, but in those days that was the nature of the beast.
Then in more recent years, a discovery was made that went beyond all imagination. During their last years of racing in the Australian Touring Cars, the man & his partner had a state of the art Holden motor built in the USA, with a configuration not yet seen in Australia before. This particular engine produced more horsepower than those from similar cars of that time. While the rest of the touring cars, including Holden & Ford were only producing 580 HP, this engine was developing 623 horsepower—partly due to the latest technology in the engine, but as dyno tests proved, the extreme power relied on the exceptional performance capability of a new brand of oil. So what was this oil?
Halfway through the creation process of this state-of-the-art motor, Wiseco pistons said that the only oil to use in this type of configuration was Red Line Synthetic Oil and the company would not provide warranty for any other oil. Finding this oil was not available in Australia proved troublesome, but shipping the oil out with the motor soon solved this problem.
So began some serious dyno testing. With a motor putting out 623 HP, comparisons were being made with the “best racing oils” available in Australia and Red Line synthetic was termed liquid gold. Both men on the team were stunned to see significant HP gains just from changing lubrication. Where thousands could be spent gaining 5 or 10 extra HP at the top-end, Red Line was giving 30HP. In today’s 700HP engines, Red Line is providing up to 50 extra HorsePower.
Soon Red Line was being used to maintain the state of the engine; notchy gearboxes were eliminated; diffs overheating and fast wear-out times were significantly reduced or no longer a problem when the Red Line oils were used. Again Red Line was giving unbelievable performances. Take for instance, the usual bearing replacements at the end of a season—after using Red Line, the bearings were stripped and looked completely brand new. No scoring or discolouring occurred from heat stress. From here began the interest by some passionate men into Red Line’s new lubrication technology.
Red Line USA, quick to appreciate professional interest, offered an Australian Distributorship, and here the story jumps to today. The company consists of four partners, who are currently expanding applications into other industries in addition to racing, such as trucking, marine, agriculture, etc.
Since then, every day, there is a new story to be told by another end user…
http://www.redlineoil.com.au/profile.asp
That's quite the tale!
