Thursday, Mar 25, 2004 at 00:58
g'day allan
can't explain why you have not got the info though, i will look into it tomorrow. please send me another email and i will make sure you get same.
independant oil analysis has been done but this will give you only the "chemical make up" of the oil and is of little use other than trying to understand how it is made, it does not give performance projections etc.
what we have had done is the testing of an 80 series cruiser on a dyno using 3 brands of the same spec oil, two competitors and our cruiser oil.
the results of these tests are what we give to any who ask, and the tests show an increase of 12% in torque at the back wheels on cruiser oil over the other two, when comparing peak performance curves.
to better explain, the maximum increase in torque produced was 12% but not uniform throughout the rev range, 12% maximum.
we have no nata reports to publish and i would be surprised if any oil company has, but i will say that the testing was done on an indipendantly owned dyno in another town.
the dyno operator is a recognised performance specialist.
i feel that the higher increases in power output is not a real comparison, but rather the torque at the back wheels is the one to go by, as after all, it is what you are putting to the ground that matters.
as far as the "claims" are concerned, we know of several major oil companies that when after the published reports hit their board room tables and after sufficient time for them to conduct testing, we were "invited" to leaving their brand names out of the published works, to which we declined.
you can't be sued for the truth.
thanks for your input, cruiser looks good.
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