Slick 50?

[Ian Dale]

Have just put the Excel back on the road after a 6 month break to carry out some jobs that just seemed to get out of hand, having removed the whole interior for what should have been a straight relay change for inoperative head lights !!
What are your thoughts of using Slick 50 oil additve for the engine?

[Steve C]

MANY years ago, I tried this stuff in a 1.6 pinto ford cortina.

After an oil change, I warmed the car up, let it tickover and poured in the slick 50, and, surprisingly, the tickover rose by about 100rpm! That implies to me that it did reduce internal friction...

Now, whether it really coats the engine is another matter ... by definition, teflon is non stick and I believe they had a lot of trouble trying to get the stuff to stick to frying pans at first, let alone sticking to hot oily engine parts ...

Considering this was a 1982 ford cortina, it did well and managed 130k on the original engine, I added slick 50 at around 65k. But, as with all my cars, it did get regular oil changes.

The only thing I can say for sure is, it caused the tickover to rise with no other changes ... indicating reduced friction on that dose of engine oil / slick 50!

[Ian Dale]

Thanks for your comments.
Funny I have noticed the Rev's are a bit higher after my drive to work this morning which are mixture of M'way and some challenging 'A' roads they sat at just over 1k and it might be me wishing but the engine did sound a little quieter and smoother, not that it sounded like a bag of nuts and bolts to start with just a bit cammie?

Thanks any way.

Nearly time to go home

[dpr59]

Did mine when I got it.

Also use Molyslip at everyother oil change.

They both work in different ways.

Slick 50 lays down a layer of PTFE that adheres to the surface (claimed).
While the Molybdenum Disulphide in Molyslip stays in the oil acting as a mobile friction reducer.

I look on it as engine insurance.

[amarshall]

http://neptune.spacebears.com/cars/lega ... html#slick