Red Line 20W60HD
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04-12-2007, 10:55 PM
Red Line 20W60HD
Anyone use this oil? My tuner tells me that it will make my engine run about 20 degrees cooler. Good for warm climates only. Ordered some today online, and could not find anyone local that carries it.
Product website:
http://www.redlineoil.com/products_m...;categoryID=11
Peace,
Product website:
http://www.redlineoil.com/products_m...;categoryID=11
Peace,
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04-12-2007, 11:56 PM
RE: Red Line 20W60HD
Clermont, FL. is pretty much a warm climate, and RedLine is a friction reducing ester based product with excellant thermal stability, which you need in a warm climate!
I'd say that its a: "20* cooler running oil that isuseful in a warm climate."
I say go for it, I did. Great Oil.
Use RedLine in all three holes.
I'd say that its a: "20* cooler running oil that isuseful in a warm climate."
I say go for it, I did. Great Oil.
Use RedLine in all three holes.
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RE: Red Line 20W60HD
I use the Redline 20w-60 and the thing about multi-grade motor oils is:
"At cold temperatures the polymers are coiled up and allow the oil to flow as their low numbers indicate. As the oil warms up the polymers begin to unwind into long chains that prevent the oil from thinning as much as it normally would. The result is that at 100 degrees C the oil has thinned only as much as the higher viscosity number indicates. Another way of looking at multi-vis oils is to think of a 20w-50 as a 20 weight oil that will not thin more than a 50 weight would when hot."
So the idea that one 20w-60 is only suited to warm weather is misguided as it will always be 20w oil when cold just like 20w-50 or 20w-40, butat the upper end thepolymers in the 20w-60 will hang in there longer than the 20w-50 etc.
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"At cold temperatures the polymers are coiled up and allow the oil to flow as their low numbers indicate. As the oil warms up the polymers begin to unwind into long chains that prevent the oil from thinning as much as it normally would. The result is that at 100 degrees C the oil has thinned only as much as the higher viscosity number indicates. Another way of looking at multi-vis oils is to think of a 20w-50 as a 20 weight oil that will not thin more than a 50 weight would when hot."
So the idea that one 20w-60 is only suited to warm weather is misguided as it will always be 20w oil when cold just like 20w-50 or 20w-40, butat the upper end thepolymers in the 20w-60 will hang in there longer than the 20w-50 etc.
FBL
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04-13-2007, 01:56 AM
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RE: Red Line 20W60HD
Titan Motorsports in Orlando carries this oil http://www.titanmotorsports.com/redline.html 
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04-13-2007, 05:49 PM
RE: Red Line 20W60HD
ORIGINAL: fatboylust
I use the Redline 20w-60 and the thing about multi-grade motor oils is:
"At cold temperatures the polymers are coiled up and allow the oil to flow as their low numbers indicate. As the oil warms up the polymers begin to unwind into long chains that prevent the oil from thinning as much as it normally would. The result is that at 100 degrees C the oil has thinned only as much as the higher viscosity number indicates. Another way of looking at multi-vis oils is to think of a 20w-50 as a 20 weight oil that will not thin more than a 50 weight would when hot."
So the idea that one 20w-60 is only suited to warm weather is misguided as it will always be 20w oil when cold just like 20w-50 or 20w-40, butat the upper end thepolymers in the 20w-60 will hang in there longer than the 20w-50 etc.
FBL
I use the Redline 20w-60 and the thing about multi-grade motor oils is:
"At cold temperatures the polymers are coiled up and allow the oil to flow as their low numbers indicate. As the oil warms up the polymers begin to unwind into long chains that prevent the oil from thinning as much as it normally would. The result is that at 100 degrees C the oil has thinned only as much as the higher viscosity number indicates. Another way of looking at multi-vis oils is to think of a 20w-50 as a 20 weight oil that will not thin more than a 50 weight would when hot."
So the idea that one 20w-60 is only suited to warm weather is misguided as it will always be 20w oil when cold just like 20w-50 or 20w-40, butat the upper end thepolymers in the 20w-60 will hang in there longer than the 20w-50 etc.
FBL