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| Re: [GMCnet] Watch this episode of Jay Leno's garage for a ZDDPalternative [message #236825 is a reply to message #236790] |
Mon, 20 January 2014 20:22   |
armandminnie
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Nano-technology is real and nano-materials are real. I'd bet that this stuff is real but I can't tell. It looks like nothing has happened with the company for a couple of years. Maybe the big oil companies are doing the same kind of thing and so this is not new except as an additive for older engines. Seems like if the oil companies had this they would tell us? Maybe the market is just too small because the auto and oil companies have solved these problems other ways.
Also, there is no explanation of how the fuel additive works and why nano-materials help make it better. Maybe some of the engineers in the crowd have some insight?
Armand Minnie
Marana, AZ
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| Re: Watch this episode of Jay Leno's garage for a ZDDP alternative [message #236860 is a reply to message #236705] |
Tue, 21 January 2014 06:58 |
MIGUEL MENDEZ
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I don't get it, WE use Rotela T or DElo 400 and I just never once, even to date, seen one lifer ever go flat, as with most things, the zddp to me is for car motor oil, but the heavy stuff still has plenty zinc in it, maybe I am just lucky but, with all the oil changes we do at MGM, I just never see any need to add anything to the GMC, and they are all running just fine, please, someone tell me what I am doing wrong here, lol
Miguel
1978 Royale Pain in the %$@, side bath w/ a 403 that i love.
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| Re: [GMCnet] Watch this episode of Jay Leno's garage for a ZDDPalternative [message #236895 is a reply to message #236825] |
Tue, 21 January 2014 10:50 |
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Matt Colie
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| armandminnie wrote on Mon, 20 January 2014 21:22 |
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Also, there is no explanation of how the fuel additive works and why nano-materials help make it better. Maybe some of the engineers in the crowd have some insight?
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I have no idea how a "nano" something could help fuel. I intend to find out. There are two problems with motor fuel being left to age. Part is that lighter fractions evaporate. A closed tank can slow this. The other is that oxygen reacts with the hydrocarbons. This is one of the reasons why "oxygenated" fuels are such a problem in storage. The older fuels with tetra-ethyl lead used to do something that made the stinky varnish.
But the new buzz word "nano" is just a replacement for what I have been calling "colloidal" for 40 years. In our case it just means solid particles smaller than and oil molecule and therefore so small it will not settle out when the "solution" is a rest.
Matt
Matt & Mary Colie - Chaumière -'73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
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