Engine oil power tests

Screw the long term consequences life is short and pilot time has a use by date before spoilage sets in. So skip to the end results. W/o oil even more power freed for a time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49kETjPZP9Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXiyc4-E7kQ

off the cuff best and worse oils to test yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Nnck5yUqI

Harley mechanical in UK with Brit accent and slang with down dirty finger tests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0lRzW_gLwE

Rotella farmer oil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlxaUqk57FE

Goodness Steve you must be bored this Christmas!!!!

How do you think Royal Purple came to the spotlight? The consistency of water, it gave infantismal power gains, and the green light at the drags. Indeed, life IS short for the dragster engines. :lol: So, Steve, Peel (gonna be) runnin the Purple? :?:

0W-5 for Pro-Stock cars http://www.royalpurpleconsumer.com/prod ... cing-oil/#

Now there's an idea for me concours, another scraw to grab at trying to put Peel our ahead, watey lube in gear box and engine. Only thing is I can't afford to rebuild each run so wonder just how thin oil might help w/o hurting too much. ATF in primary and tranny gave a detectable ease. Will have to go by oil pressure in engine cheating. Short and glorious or long an boring, hm.

Ta.

ludwig said:

hobot said:

.. life is short and pilot time has a use by date before spoilage sets in..

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How very true !
Not that I want to push you , but does that mean we can expect a resurrection of miss Peel before the end of this decade ?

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With 6.26% of all forum posts / 4.92 posts per day, not much time left for working on Peel.

It is often talked about with modern sports bikes that thin oil can boost power. Various magazines have 'proven' this, however, given the very high power outputs of modern bikes, I would suggest one would have to be a very good, and serious, racer to even notice any difference, never mind benefit from it.

With our old bikes, I believe its something of a red herring...

I once Dyno test thick vs thin oil in a highly tuned BSA R3 motor and saw zero difference ( and that's an engine with a lot of pressure fed oil galleries going on inside).

With a Norton, pretty much like most old Brit twins, so little of the engine is fed by pressure, the vast majority is fed by splash, and tolerances (by modern standards) are so big, that my belief is that a relatively thick oil suits such engines better than a relatively thin one.

That's my opinion, and I might add, it is based on very little in the way of hard evidence...!