best engine oil??
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From what I've read over the years regarding slick 50 I'd be somewhat reluctant to buy a car that had slick 50 added to the engine oil. Is this me being too reactionary or is there really something in the views that this sort of stuff can block oil passageways? I think, at best, it would seem to be a waste of money.
Mark
I've read some very interesting technical articles on this stuff.. several linked to from previous threads on here... it was mostly along the lines of flakes of "lubricant" block up your oil filters and form a sludge in deep corners. It does indeed make the engine run better, but for a limited life.. all the positive tests talk about increased performance, but none of them ever talk about engine lifetime
I would shy away from a car proudly displaying a Slick50 sticker and an owner saying he put it in on a regular basis..
Just IMO
Cheers
Matt
quote:Oh (again). In that case I volunteer to help assist you to strip ted's engine down in the name of science at the next meet.
I did say strip not remove the rockers covers...
Mind you, if ted's has hydraulic tappets or not it doesn't prove anything as the word 'consistency' seems to be entirely missing from TVR's dictionary. It'd kill a sunday afternoon though so I'm in
. Mark
It's been a while since I had the heads or rocker covers off a car, but surely on the car with no hydraulic followers you have a pushrod under one side of the rocker and valve stem under the otherside.. ?
With the hydraulic bucket followers inplace, this is not so..
I'd have thought it easy to tell with the rocker cover off..
btw Steve - I didn't imply that simply changing to hydraulic tappets would give a power/torque lift - I said I reckoned the heads had been reworked. If I was wrong, that's cool, I don't want to be accused of being wrong about the wrong thing
>> Edited by CarZee on Tuesday 8th October 11:28
With the hydraulic bucket followers inplace, this is not so..
I'd have thought it easy to tell with the rocker cover off..
btw Steve - I didn't imply that simply changing to hydraulic tappets would give a power/torque lift - I said I reckoned the heads had been reworked. If I was wrong, that's cool, I don't want to be accused of being wrong about the wrong thing
>> Edited by CarZee on Tuesday 8th October 11:28
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Mind you, if ted's has hydraulic tappets or not it doesn't prove anything as the word 'consistency' seems to be entirely missing from TVR's dictionary. It'd kill a sunday afternoon though so I'm in
And it will kill three afternoons putting it all back together again and another deciding what to do with all the spare bolts and washers that we took off and didn't need...
Somehow I don't think Ted will oblige...
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btw Steve - I didn't imply that simply changing to hydraulic tappets would give a power/torque lift - I said I reckoned the heads had been reworked. If I was wrong, that's cool, I don't want to be accused of being wrong about the wrong thing
Don't worry... I think we are all in the "not sure what the hell is going on" soup at the moment. I was told that the main reasons was the exhaust manifold. To use hydraulics or solids on the V8 doesn't need a head rework (if you exclude making the push rod holes bigger).
Steve
quote:Pah, I'm a profeshunal, I had no bits left over from taking my engine out and putting it back in again (amazingly).
And it will kill three afternoons putting it all back together again and another deciding what to do with all the spare bolts and washers that we took off and didn't need...
BTW, that cd of engine pictures is going in the post to you today Steve, sorry for the delay.
Regards,
Mark
Hang on to the fish supper, I might of been right then 
These TVRs are bloody confusing - and now I find I've been talking to Mark Hibbins thinking he was someone else. Why the change Mark? Is it the mob again?
I vote we take Carzee's engine to bits, I know its not the right type but it would be a laugh.
These TVRs are bloody confusing - and now I find I've been talking to Mark Hibbins thinking he was someone else
. Why the change Mark? Is it the mob again? I vote we take Carzee's engine to bits, I know its not the right type but it would be a laugh
.quote:Curses.
Hang on to the fish supper, I might of been right then
quote:Sorry. The name has changed because I went to VW and started to introduce myself as mhibbins and frankly it sounded a bit naff compared to "RevHead" or "HardB*stard" so I changed it to the same on-line 'handle' I use everywhere else which is "dern". This was a nickname at school invented by some tool who took the name of the football team "Hibernian" (which sounds a bit like Hibbins), got it wrong and came up with "Hiberdernian" and the "dern" bit stuck mainly because it is the only bit of "Hiberdernian" not in "Hibernian"
These TVRs are bloody confusing - and now I find I've been talking to Mark Hibbins thinking he was someone else
. Well you did ask quote:Presumably we need a reason to do this... may I suggest some kind of sweepstake to see how many bits it actually breaks down to?
I vote we take Carzee's engine to bits, I know its not the right type but it would be a laugh
Mark
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Carzee,
I changed one of mine last week. Took 3 hours but no stripped threads or breakages, just take your time. Also just loosen the the bottom ones nearest the bulkhead. you can then lift the manifolds up to gain better access to them once you've removed all the others.
Tony
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I don't like the way this thread is going
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Carzee,
I changed one of mine last week. Took 3 hours but no stripped threads or breakages, just take your time. Also just loosen the the bottom ones nearest the bulkhead. you can then lift the manifolds up to gain better access to them once you've removed all the others.
Tony
Just to add my two penneth. Several years ago, I used Slick 50 in a Vauxhall Cavalier which had a relatively new engine, (because the instructions said it helped protect new engines as well) but within a month the big end bearing siezed and it destroyed the entire engine. I always suspected that Slick 50 caused the problem by possibly blocking the oil channel in the big end shells. It's interesting to hear now that others have had problems which coincide with using Slick 50.
Jas.
Jas.
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