New Oil on the Market Options

[solex]

Got this in a newsletter this morning. Seems a bit expensive, I wonder if it is worth the money.

Liquid Cosworth

[Jake Raby]

The wild thing is the fact I used the suntan oil as a joke and it worked extremely well.. Back in 2002 a local VW show I attend and do engine blows at was having a "Beach" theme... In the middle of Tennessee! I always like to do crazy things so I had the wild idea of preping a blow motor and then changing the oil to a mixture of Panama Jack and Hawaiian tropic for the theme..

I fired the engine up and it ran at wide open throttle for more than 5 solid minutes with no cooling system, not even an oil cooler! Typically the oil will get so hot that it becomes useless and bearings start spinning and a rod comes through the case- not the case! The engine ran and ran until a piece of a piston chipped off and got sucked into the oil pump, seizing the gears and killing the oil pressure.... The chip was still there when I tore thee engine down....

The odd thing was normally when I tear these babies down after a big BLOW the oil smells burnt to the point it will almost turn your stomach- you can smell it outside the shop in some instances when the case is split. The suntan oil still smelled fine, not burned at all and it was still clear, not dark brown or black, it seemed not to break down at all compared to engine oil.

I learned a lot from that experience for sure, no one believes that it will work!

I won't even bother telling you how much power it frees up on the dyno, we'll just say it's " notable".

Sometimes we benefit from doing off the wall stuff!