<VV> Filteration and Synthetic oil

[Mel Francis]

Smitty, no need to go to Google for misinformation. The company's name is 
AMSOIL, by the way.

Here's the page that can tell you the actual story: 
http://www.amsoil.com/company.aspx

Here's a page that outlines their bypass flow system: 
http://www.amsoil.com/shop/by-product/filters-and-by-pass-systems/by-pass/filters-and-mounts/general-use-dual-remote-oil-bypass-unit/

After reading Richard Widmark's discussion of oils for our Corvairs, I tried 
a crankcase of their High-Zinc 10W 40 oil in a stock '64 convertible and it 
cured the bad valve clack on cold startups, that the car had been 
experiencing for years.

Mel Francis


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Smitty" <vairologist at cox.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 12:31 PM
Subject: <VV> Filteration and Synthetic oil


> From: judynrandy at comcast.net
>
> In reference to the 1 micron filters, you guys flunked the test.? You
> somehow missed the part about that being part of a "dual remote bypass
> filter" setup.? You are absolutely correct in saying a filter that tight
> would be very restrictive.? Which is why Amsoil put it next to the full 
> flow
> filter. Because the media is so dense it can only filter a small portion 
> of
> oil at a time.? The rest bypasses and goes on through the full flow 
> filter.?
> When the oil comes out the bypass filter, it is analytically clean.? But
> looks can be deceptive.? They say at 45mph, in about 20 minutes, all the 
> oil
> in the crankcase will have been filtered through the bypass filter at 
> least
> once.? Oh yeah, and Smitty, the guy who founded Amsoil was a fighter pilot
> in the air force.? Guess where the idea of synthetics for cars came from.?
> His name is Al Amatuzio (hence the name Amsoil) and he noticed his fighter
> jet was kept alive by synthetic lubes and oil analysis and wondered why?
> someone couldn't come  up with the same thing for cars.? Upon his retiring
> from the air force, he did, and in 1972 Amsoil was born.? And like Paul
> Harvey used to say, "Now you know the rest of the story."
> =================================
> Smitty Says;  Having never seen an Ansol bypass filter on a Corvair I have
> to ask.  Is this something that clamps between the filter and the adaptor?
> I assume this fighter pilot you mention was in the German Airforce because
> the US was not forced into the use of synthetic oil and gasoline as the
> Germans were toward the end of WW2.   The US was able to continue using
> dinosaur juice.  I see Amsol through Google claims that he invented
> synthetic oil.  The claim is by Amsol and not by anyone else in the
> industry.  I find that highly unlikely that he did since the Germans were
> using it since before 43.
>
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