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From: rome@nmtvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Need information on slick-50 engine treatment
Message-ID: <256@nmtvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-Feb-85 13:15:14 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  5 13:15:14 1985
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Reply-To: rome@nmtvax.UUCP (Jeffery G. Micono)
Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro
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I had heard about a similiar product which claimed to do the same thing 
(that is coat your engine with teflon*). It sounded really good, almost too
good.  So I called up Edward's Engines in Albuquerque (Edward's Engines builds
racing engines).  I spoke to the owner and he said, "I put that garbage in one
of my engines once and it ruined it."  He cited the main reason being that
the teflon* will stick fine at first, but after a while it breaks down on 
the cylinder walls, destroying the rings.  (I didn't ask him about rotary
engines being as I own a Volvo with an old-style pushrod 4).  That was
good enough for me.  I'll stay with Castrol GTX 20W-50.

                                        Jeff

*You're right, teflon is DuPont's tm