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Old 04-05-2014, 07:50 PM   #19
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Default Re: Oil Additives

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Originally Posted by Kurt in NJ View Post
Adding additives to some oils will make them worse ---the chemical compositions can clash, different compounds have been added to take the place of zinc in some oils, adding zinc to them can make the oil loose the benefits of either compound.

If you look at this post and it will take a while you will learn a lot about oil, later on in this post or other of this persons posts there are tests done on oil---after additives are added, many show a LOSS in oil performance.
http://speedtalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30483
I agree with Kurt. Adding anything to oil necessarily means that at the very least you have diluted the oil and the additive package that smart cookies in the manufacturers' test labs have decided work best.
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