Date:         Tue, 15 Jul 2003 18:40:50 -0600
Reply-To:     tom ring <taring@TARING.ORG>
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From:         tom ring <taring@TARING.ORG>
Organization: Tippen Ringware
Subject:      Re: Oil
Comments: To: Pensioner <al_knoll@PACBELL.NET>
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Yup, from memory maybe half an inch or so deep and a quarter inch thick, full
length and breadth of the pan.  It's an 85.  I haven't the slightest idea if
this is normal, this being my first westy.  So far.

I'd _love_ to see the specific heat of each oil type listed on the oil
container.  It would be a boon to all who understand thermo.  Bet the
synthetics vary based on base stock type.  I read the Mobil 1 is not too great
but Torca and Red Line are OK.  That was a somewhat informal test of several
oils by a Mini Cooper racer.  Again, as I stated in my original message "I HAVE
NOT VERIFIED THIS".  If it isn't in a formal test document, done with
instruments appropriate for the job, it isn't real as far as I'm concerned, it
is hearsay.

tom

On 15 Jul 2003 at 7:56, Pensioner wrote:

> Fins?  YOU GOT FINS on your WBX crankcase?  Not likely that the specific
> heat of the two oils varies much but the mechanic was pretty much spot on
> with his advice for aircooleds.  They're really mostly oil cooled, with a
> large amount of heat being transfered via the oil to the case and sump and
> thence to the air.  If the oils have significantly different thermal
> capacity characteristics then ... well you get the idea.
>
> p
>


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Tom Ring K0TAR, ex-WA2PHW  EN34hx
taring@taring.org

"It is better to go into a turn slow, and come out fast, than to go into a turn fast
and come out dead." Stirling Moss