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enginedoctor

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"todays fuel. v.s. your engine"
« on: April 08, 2008, 06:29:38 PM »
    I can remember back when fuel was   $0.20 cents a gallon  and it smelled cool!
   
    yesterday's  engines  will not perform  well on  what you get from the pump today PERIOD!!


    " I have people come in all the time.... they had their engine built somewhere and they

      say  it does not perform well".


1.  don't put the carriage ahead of the horse and blame your engine builder.

2.  find a carb. and ignition specialist  and have them calibrated based on your engine spec.sheet.

3.  this needs to be done before,  NOT AFTER   you fire up your new engine.

4.  also,   engine oil today,  has a lack of zinc...  camshaft failure by various  cam grinders
     
     and engine builders blame  cam failure on this.... and I agree.   


     
         we are limited to restrictions and they will impact the way these engines perform.
         
        " just do your best to protect your engine by proper tuning and break-in,  oil & fuel."


                                                           


                                                                                                                                     
   

   
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Re: "todays fuel. v.s. your engine"
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2008, 11:44:11 PM »
I have done some research and it seems TORCO has one of the highest zinc contents out of all of the oils I have looked into!
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Taco'd "a person or people that show up with one lake lice and a family of 50 and cram 3 people at a time on it with no disregard to boating rules or ethics. Usualy crap in toilets and throw shit paper in trash cans. Hang out at the boat ramp like its a swimming hole. Have zero insurance on anything they own and dont give two shits less about your property."

KonaCole

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Re: "todays fuel. v.s. your engine"
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2008, 07:22:34 AM »
I have done some research and it seems TORCO has one of the highest zinc contents out of all of the oils I have looked into!

Someone told me that Chevron Dalo is good to use because of zinc
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jet boat performance

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Re: "todays fuel. v.s. your engine"
« Reply #3 on: April 09, 2008, 07:55:27 AM »
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We use Torco oils and are dealer for Torco oils ,products and Torco Race gas (oil company's actually different co from the fuel) they have straight weight and multi grade race oil in synthetic and "non" ,they also have "breakin oil" that ,among other uses they recommend for the "change over" huge additive pkgs ! good stuff ,Great folks ( a little spendy) heres a link.. or you can order from us lots of other good stuff like assy lubes ...Tom
http://www.torcoracingoils.com/
 
I ran Castrol 20 50 in everything religously for years but its my understanding that most all the oils readily available at parts stores (even Kendall) have drastically reduced or eliminated the additve packages (zinc ,moly, etc) to drop the counter prices . so we started using Shell rottela or Chevron delo (diesel grade ,high additives) and Torco in the Race hot rod stuff Tom 

And ps WOW I can only remember gas at around 29.9 per !!  but I also remember working at Standard (chevron) where we had Red ,Blue and White pumps all were leaded but the white was 104 octane ,ran 12.5 to one in my second  SS 409 Impala  8)
 
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Re: "todays fuel. v.s. your engine"
« Reply #4 on: April 09, 2008, 08:17:36 AM »
I use the EOC from Chevy in my hotrod...It's an oil attitive with zinc and comes in a little bottle just mix in with yer oil...
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jet boat performance

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Re: "todays fuel. v.s. your engine"
« Reply #5 on: April 09, 2008, 08:26:26 AM »
I use the EOC from Chevy in my hotrod...It's an oil attitive with zinc and comes in a little bottle just mix in with yer oil...

Yes ! also good stuff !
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Re: "todays fuel. v.s. your engine"
« Reply #6 on: April 09, 2008, 08:37:50 AM »
Alot of the companies out there that used to have high zinc content quietly dropped there zinc content , including big name like royal purple. Torco also makes cat friendly good oils , and just a zinc addative if you are just running regular oil and still want high zinc.
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Taco'd "a person or people that show up with one lake lice and a family of 50 and cram 3 people at a time on it with no disregard to boating rules or ethics. Usualy crap in toilets and throw shit paper in trash cans. Hang out at the boat ramp like its a swimming hole. Have zero insurance on anything they own and dont give two shits less about your property."

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Re: "todays fuel. v.s. your engine"
« Reply #7 on: April 09, 2008, 08:57:07 AM »
Most diesel oils still have zinc.
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Re: "todays fuel. v.s. your engine"
« Reply #8 on: April 09, 2008, 09:33:00 AM »
i run mobil 1 synthetic diesel oil in my truck it has some special -4 property the engine needs and lucas additive as well in all my engines...and i run RBP performance fuel additive for the gas tank.
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Re: "todays fuel. v.s. your engine"
« Reply #9 on: April 09, 2008, 04:50:11 PM »
Thank,s for your input...it all sounds good so far ;D
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