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If you saw my oil temp start to skyrocket when I entered the interstate on a 45 degree day with the Synth youd think there was a problem. Hey, I still have some of the unused offending fluid, you up to a test?? Keith > On 20 Mar 2003 at 19:30, Keith Park wrote: > > > It may also be that Mobil 1 has solved the heat transfer problem. > > I don't believe there ever was a heat transfer problem. No one out there > explains what they mean by that and there are only 2 possibilities. > > The first is that the specific heat of the synthetics might be low, meaning > that they could not be used to transport much heat. The specific heats are > published, I believe, and they are not much different from petroleum oils. Both > are significantly lower than water. > > The second is that synthetics won't give up (or accept) heat to/from other > objects well, but that is also pretty absurd, since this property is pretty > much identical for all liquids of a given viscosity. > > -- > ******************************* > Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org > Madison, Wisconsin, USA > ******************************* > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > >