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THERE IS WAY MORE TO TORCO THEN JUST MOTOR OILS
Torco International Corp. is known in a many circles of hardcore racing and high performance street driving for building the best racing oils money can buy. Often overlooked is the fact that Torco is thinking about your race engine way before you pour oil into it. Torco believes that one of the most important and often forgotten about areas of lubrication is during the engine assembly process. This is a critical time to do all you can to protect those expensive parts from the wear that takes place during initial startup and the first few hours of run time. Torco Engine Assembly Lube (EAL), Engine Assembly Lube HP and Spray Lube are all similar in formula containing MPZ but, are designed for specific areas of the engine assembly. The original Torco Engine Assembly Lube is recommended for areas that need the fluid to penetrate and migrate into small areas and openings (bearings, rings and cylinders for example). The HP is for areas of the engine that have high pressure points (valve train area-cam lobes and springs for example). The Spray Lube can be used on an assembled valve train as a pre-lube just before valve covers are placed on and ready for first engine firing. Spray Lube is also highly recommended for use on cylinder walls of an engine block that is going to be stored.
The EAL products lay down a separating anti-wear barrier (MPZ) on all metal components it comes in contact with. This formulation is quite unique and sets Torco EAL apart from any other Engine Assembly Lube available. Torco uses high-polar components that, through a chemical reaction, stay put to protect engine components. This technology is based on what we call “Boundary Lubrication” as opposed to the more familiar “Fluid Lubrication”. Boundary Lubrication is a bit mysterious and a little harder to understand but we believe it to be most important when building oils for race engines.
Even Manufacturers like Mercury Marine, S&S Cycles, KB Pistons, Web Cam have all complemented their own products by using Torco’s assembly lubes and minimizing initial startup wear. Torco addressed boundary lubrication in the early 1970s and still leads the way in that that department. Most of the competition continues to go on and on about their base oils and they do not speak much about their additive system because they are most likely using a stock additive system from a major additive company. The Torco MPZ proprietary additive system remains ahead of its time and we expect to stay out in front with our always improving innovations for many more years to come. Please email info@torcomalta.com with any questions that you may have after reading this piece.
BY CHRIS REAL CERTIFIED LUBRICATION SPECIALIST In this issue I have elected to discuss Automotive Gear oils & lubrication for our vehicles. Gear oils are a very important issue when we are dealing with increased horsepower vehicles, and coupling the power to the ground. To enter this discussion it is important to start with some basic fundamentals about lubrication. Lubrication of mechanical components is generally accomplished by maintaining two primary types of lubrication, Hydrodynamic Lubrication & Boundary Lubrication....CLICK ON PDF FOR FULL ARTICLE
BY CHRIS REAL CERTIFIED LUBRICATION SPECIALIST Documented Horsepower & Torque from Engine Lubrication The claims of additional horsepower and torque from lubricants are often made. Usually, these claims are boastful marketing claims made without documentation or independent, unbiased or scientific methods used to gather data to support the claims. Torco International recently elected to evaluate several “performance” lubricants in high performance automobile engines. The goal was to evaluate how different lubricants effect engine power output....CLICK ON PDF FOR FULL ARTICLE
“ TECHNICAL INFORMATION ABOUT MOTOR OIL” Rob Lancaster
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Dear Friends:
For those of you that could not join us at the 2010 SEMA show, we would like to update you with interesting news. If you are not already following Torco on Facebook, don’t hesitate to stop by. It’s a great place to come for all the latest updates, photos and news.
The Torco staff just arrived home from another busy and successful SEMA show today, Nov 6. It was a very productive show for Torco and we met a lot of great people from all over the world. We would like to thank everyone that stopped by.
Bisi Ezerioha and his 553 hp Honda CR-Z Hybrid 1.5 cc engine has been featured in the New York Times and we are all very excited about this. You can read the article below and take a look at the photos where you’ll notice Bisi is rockin some new Torco logos on the front quarter panels.
Thank you and best regards from Torco.
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November 3, 2010, 1:00 pm
Honda CR-Z Finds Tuner Love at SEMA Show
Jerry Garrett for The New York Times Bisi Ezerioha, owner of Bisimoto Engineering, beside a Honda CR-Z that his company has tuned to 533 horsepower.
LAS VEGAS — Honda once owned the aftermarket tuner market, but about a decade ago, the Japanese automaker started bringing out more mild-mannered models that intentionally turned away from the high-performance crowd. Now, it appears Honda wants at least part of that market back, and a collection of radically tweaked CR-Z hybrids on display at this year’s SEMA Show is meant to do just that.
“Green means go” is a theme that is prominently espoused at the Honda stand. “We’ve reached out to the import tuner community and asked them to push the CR-Z’s limits,” said Chris Martin, a Honda spokesman.
The most outrageous of the 12 concepts was the Honda CR-Z fromBisimoto Engineering of Ontario, Calif., which claims to have wrung 533 horsepower out of the tiny 1.5-liter engine that comes with the car from the Honda factory.
“There’s more to come,” said the company’s founder, Bisi Ezerioha. “Honda only gave us the car in August.”
Mr. Ezerioha said the only limitation he placed on his juicing up of the powertrain was to “retain its eco-friendly properties.” To that end, he claimed, his creation “gets slightly better than the advertised fuel economy” of a stock CR-Z, which is 31 miles per gallon in the city and 37 on the highway.
“It still run on unleaded,” he added.
Jerry Garrett for The New York Times The engine in the Bisimoto Engineering Honda CR-Z is said to make 533 horsepower.
Mr. Ezerioha wouldn’t give away all his tuning secrets, but said he had radically reworked the exhaust system to reduce power-robbing back pressure, reconfigured the intake and exhaust manifolds, added a Kinsler fuel injection system, substituted higher compression ratio pistons, and — besides a long list of other improvements — added a Turbonetics turbocharger, blow-off and a massive intercooler.
“The intercooler might have been a bit of overkill,” he said. He also copped to winding the turbo up to about 20 pounds of boost. “But we could go higher.”
Mr. Ezerioha said he intended to bring out a line of CR-Z go-fast accessories for the public to purchase. American Honda is also planning to offer CR-Z performance parts.
Honda Performance Development, a high-performance in-house arm of American Honda, also unveiled two concepts it had produced: the CR-Z Hybrid R Concept and the HPD CR-Z Racer. Besides some performance modifications, including turbocharging, to the 1.5-liter engine, the concepts have a new type of battery pack that uses a nickel-magnesium-cobalt composition, instead of the stock nickel-metal-hydride version. A result is boosting the stock power output from 122 horsepower to 200 horsepower (and 175 pound-feet of torque).
Jerry Garrett for The New York Times Honda Performance Development, which builds the engines for the IndyCar series, built this Honda CR-Z racer.
Around this week’s sprawling SEMA Show, which occupies nearly a million square feet of exhibition space at the Las Vegas ConventionCenter, it appeared the CR-Z was the object of loving attention from a number of customizers.
“The combination of greener practicality with style and fun makes this vehicle a perfect fit for young, environmentally conscious buyers,” said Bruce Smith, American Honda’s vice president of parts operations, “especially those looking to further personalize their cars.”
Zinc's extreme pressure qualities also aid in reducing piston ring-to-cylinder bore wear at BDC and TDC, where the rotating assembly sees an abrupt change in velocity and direction. Besides its extreme pressure protection, multifunctional zinc also functions as an antioxidant. That is, things exposed to heat and oxygen are subject to oxidation. In the case of a ferrous metal like iron, oxidation causes corrosion, which we see as rust. As applied to motor oil, Ferner said as the "heat accelerates oxygen, the oil starts to oxidize and thicken, changing into other molecular combinations. As the oil thickens, it forms deposits or varnish. In motor oil, the antioxidant additives first sacrifice themselves to prevent this oxidation from occurring, but if they get overwhelmed, the oil eventually turns into a hard, crusty sludge.
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