does anyone know what makes redline racing oil green in colour? it's green like Simple Green not GC. are they adding dye to distinguish from the street oil or is it caused by excessive amounts of moly?
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MolaKule
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Yes, as Buster said, just dye. Oil soluble dyes come in every color of the rainbow, with the most popular being amber.
IIRC, it used to be blue.
whew okay very nice. i would have been a bit worried if it was moly. i'm dumping the quarts into clear 1gallon PETE bottles. even though theyre labelled its always good to be sure one can identify one from the other. thank you guys
Originally Posted By: simple_gifts
IIRC, it used to be blue.
yeah this batch is bright emerald green. it's the 10W. maybe they use diff colours for diff viscosities
IIRC, it used to be blue.
yeah this batch is bright emerald green. it's the 10W. maybe they use diff colours for diff viscosities
MolaKule
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Could be. At one time their oils had red dye in them but they reduced it because it was too close a color to the dye used in ATF.
The moly is usually grey streak through the oil, the green could be a nice group 1 base oil
I've even tried an oil that looked like raspberry cordial syrup. Good stuff. It was an iteresting colour choice as it was not too far off trans oil. Just it smelt much much sweeter.
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