[DeTomaso] Oil brand with ZDDT?

[Dave Londry]

I used to love 20W50 Mobil 1.
It was real racing oil plus it had 1300 ppm and could be bought for 4 
bucks a quart.
Now ... I just buy any of the name-brand synthetics with a 40 or 50 hot 
viscocity and a CJ-4 rating and dump in a half-dose of EOS.
dave

On 2/5/2011 2:03 PM, Dan Courtney wrote:
> It looks like Valvoline VR1 Racing 20/50 has zbbt, but the ppm are not 
> listed.
> I saw some posts from June '10 on an Alfa Romeo site indicating it has 
> 1,300 ppm, but I don't know how reliable, or current, that info is.
> Supposedly Royal Purple has zbbt, but that stuff seems to leak real 
> easily.
>
> Dan
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> From: "Dave Londry" <davel at emspace.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 1:29 PM
> To: "Dan Courtney" <dfcex at excaliburre.com>
> Cc: "Dan Courtney" <dfcex at pacbell.net>; <detomaso at realbig.com>
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Oil brand with ZDDT?
>
>> It's friggin' near impossible to keep up to the rate the ZDDP content 
>> is being taken out of everything except pure racing oils like Gibbs.
>> Any oil that has been taken down to CJ-4 rating only guarantees 800 
>> ppm, and a reasonable target is 1300 unless you have a roller cam.
>>
>> Delco EOS is about the easiest 'real' supplement to find and there is 
>> enough info on the jug
>> for you can figure out how much to add to raise the content by 500 
>> points.
>>
>> dave
>>
>> On 2/5/2011 12:57 PM, Dan Courtney wrote:
>>> I'm having a real hard time finding any oil with ZDDT. Last time I 
>>> used Kendall GT1 20/50 with added Zinc, but none of the chains in 
>>> San Diego carry this anymore (I've tried Pep Boys, Auto Zone, 
>>> O'Reilly's ./ Kragen, Carquest and Napa - nada).
>>> Shell Rotella does not specifically list ZDDT on the label. After 
>>> losing a cam lobe on break-in last year I'm not putting anything in 
>>> unless I know it has ZDDT.
>>> Pep Boys sells a Zinc additive called Hyper Lube, but does anyone 
>>> know of a brand which has Zinc? Wasn't there one Valveoline product 
>>> with the stuff?
>>>
>>> Thank You,
>>> Dan
>>>
>>>
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