RE: synthetic and conventional oil question

["Patrick Bureau" <pbureau@home.com>]

Ron, your right an english inch and an american inch are the same...it's a
FIXED unit.  that it be a diesel oil or a standard oil or a syntetic oil, it
is the same 10w40, 15w50, 20w50  ect etc viternam nauseum...

BUT

The molecules can be smaller with a identical viscosity rating non the less.
There is just more molecules in a syntetic oil than in a dino oil, and that
is why it does not breakdown as easily (More smaller molecules, less gaps in
between the smaller molecules versus large molecules and more space of a
dino oil) that is also the reason why syntetic oil last longer between oil
changes versus dino oils.


Patrick
even at 7am it made sence....
"pack, ready to go home.... now where is that visa?"

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org
[mailto:owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Cheapass Ron
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 6:35 AM
To: Dave Ewing; Scirocco List
Subject: Re: synthetic and conventional oil question

Huh?  Viscosity is measured, and I thought a spec was a spec.

Therefore, 10W-40 in conventional oil will be the same viscosity as
10W-40 in synthetic, or one of them is spec'd wrong, no?  Correct me if
I'm wrong...



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