junnie, you are babbling. wanna know what the men/women who build extreme
performance race engines use? It goes $10 to $15 a quart, and they are happy
to pay the price.

the word ------------ can --------------------- has no meaning in this
discussion. Probably the easiest way to determine the validity of any claim
that one oil is better suited for the marine environment than another is to ask
yourself if the major oil companies make different oils for the marine market
than they make for the markets using the same base engines. If there is a need
in marine engines that doesn't exist in the same engines used in the non-marine
market those guys know it and are more than happy to make a special oil and
sell it at a special price for a special profit. If large oil companies think
is is the same, you can bet one is the same.

this ain't rocket science. oil company engineers aren't stupid.

Gene Kearns
Date: 10/9/2004 2:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id:

On 09 Oct 2004 03:07:23 GMT, (JAXAshby) wrote:

Marine Oil is boutique oil and ---------------------------- can
----------------------------------- have an additive package tailored
to the marine environment

why on Earth would anyone believe that? The world
-------------------------------- can ----------------------- turn in
figures
eights, but does it?

If an outside force acted upon the earth in a prescribed manner, the
earth *would* turn in figure eights. Given that there are many
different bottlers of oil (as opposed to one earth), do you feel that
it is equally impossible that oils contain different additives? That's
a stretch, even for you.

Any bottler of XYZ oil (marine, or not) has the option of putting any
sort of additives into the oil they deem fit. Since there are numerous
re-packagers of oil (as well as oil producing concerns), it would be
impossible to give *one* answer to this general question.

There certainly are additives that could enhance the performance of
oil destined for high operating RPM, high ambient humidity, relatively
low operating temperatures... things that automotive oils may well
perform, but haven't been tailored to excel.

Do you have any DATA to refute this?

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