Soldato
Millers do make fantastic oils, but the results here are seriously far fetched.
It works in Gran Turismo though...
It works in Gran Turismo though...
Power Boosting Oil
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Soldato
The basic idea is the same as wrinkle cream filling up wrinkles so they look smoother. On a microscopic level the surface of metal is pitted/scraped etc (it looks like valleys up close) and these additives "fill-in" these areas with nano sized balls. After enough pressure the balls breakdown (shed their skin like an onion) which then fills in the valleys and helps flatten out the surface, allowing the 2 metal surfaces to glide along each others valleys with less friction and heat. If there's less friction then the engine can turn more freely which gives a slight power increase, although 23hp on the focus above seems way too high unless the car was running 500hp+ as the gain should be around 2-3% max (well within dyno error tolerances) unless there's something wrong with the engine or the old oil was way too thick. We use ZX-1 on our 170hp rally cars engine & gearbox (mechanic gets it "free" from work) and after every strip the block is still fine, although it may still have been using oil alone TBH!
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with an electric supercharger?
Soldato
A racing snake?
Chlorinated parafins like ZX1 have been around since before WW2 and the problems they cause with alloys containing copper are well understood. Your engine would be no different internally simply through using a decent oil-its not unusual to still see honing marks in engines with 100k miles one them these days. I certainly wouldn't consider puttng that junk into any engine I owned.
