William. How many sets of piston rings have you ever seen ? Did you know that there are about thirty different designs for compression rings, oil scraper rings, #2 compression ring? Only about three are designed for racing and the others are designed for applications considered standard. VW has three rings but other vehicles and industrial engines can have four or even more in some cases. If you believe that you can break in a Waser Boxer on Synthetic I'd welcome your reports for the first two years while you're hoping to develop good compression. Stan Wilder On Sat, 27 Apr 2002 17:54:51 -0700 developtrust <developtrust@COX.NET> writes: > Like I said it is most likely a myth like needing to rotate radial > tires > only front to back. We now know that we can rotate radial tires any > which > way and I believe we can break an engine in better with synthetic > oil. > > William > > > > I have wondered about this also. Lexus for example uses synthetic > from the > > get go. Their engines seem to break in just fine. any theories??? > > > > Ed > > > > >There are however a couple of high end automobile companies that > install > > synthetic motor oil at the factory in their new >automobiles and > who's > > engines never see anything but synthetic oil, one is Porsche the > other I > do > > not remember. > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. |
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