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This competition will close at midnight Tonight (12th May), no entries will be accepted after this time. We will post the results here week commencing 18th May. Last chance to enter here http://www.opieoils.co.uk/frmoilcompetition.aspx Good luck! Cheers The OpieOils Team

Folks, We’re running a little competition, with no purchase necessary to win £100 of oil from our brand new range of competition and race oils. Pop along to our web site take a look at the photo and tell us what make of car it is & who the oil sponsor is. If you’re right, we’ll enter you in to a prize draw, to take place at Europe’s biggest Japanese car show, JAPFEST, Castle Combe Circuit on 16th May. The winner will receive £100 of oil (of their choice) from the new range of oils we’re launching at the show. This new and exciting range of oils will be available exclusively online from www.opieoils.co.uk soon afterwards. So what do you have to lose? Enter the competition here! Our product launch includes playing host to this amazing, competition-winning car at JAPFEST. We'll also have 4 awesome Japanese cars running over 1000bhp! So if you can make it along to the show on 16th May at Castle Combe, we’re sure it will be a great day out. Finally, we’ve put together some exclusive show pricing on a selection of our most popular products, available on a pre-order basis only. Products, prices and the pre-order form are here. We won't be carrying much additional stock on the day, so please pre-order to make sure you don't miss out. Good luck with the competition, and we hope to see you at JAPFEST on 16th May – Castle Combe Circuit, Wiltshire! Guy and the OpieOils.co.uk Team Competition Closes Midnight 12th May!

Dave, Thanks for the order. Will try to get if to you for the weekend. Cheers Guy

This special Easter Offer is extended until midnight Thursday 16th April. DISCOUNT VOUCHER CODE = OPIEEGG Last Orders Please! Cheers, The opieoils.co.uk Team.

Folks, If you didn't already know... as a user of this forum you’ll get a discount of up to 20%, and at least 10% at Opie Oils… And as one of our rare but wonderful across-the-board offers, you can get an additional 15% off using voucher code OPIEEGG, and there’s no minimum spend either [:smiley:] We’re running this offer until the end of the bank holiday weekend – midnight on Easter Monday, 13th April – don’t miss out! So, if you haven’t already registered, register on the Opie Oils web site (free), use our Easter Special discount voucher – OPIEEGG - and until midnight on Easter Monday you can get a discount of at least 25% off retail prices across our product range: • 25% - 35% off all engine oils • 25% - 35% off all gear oils, diff oils and transmission fluid • 25% - 35% off all brake fluid • At least 25% off car oil and filter service packs • 25% off all cleaning and detailing products (Meguiars, Bilt Hamber and Muc-Off) • 25% off Denso Iridium spark plugs (high performance, long life plugs) • 25% off all coolant and workshop products • 25% off top of the range Trico Neoform beam blade wipers • 25% off filters Log in as a member to get your 10 - 20% discount, then use code OPIEEGG at the checkout to get your additional 15% off… up to 35% off RRP. Sadly, we can't include our range of Brembo Max, Brembo Sport and Brembo GT Kits in this offer (you'll get your usual member's discount), but everything else is in. If you've not already registered, register now here. Happy Easter from us all at Opie Oils!

Under a week left guys, hurry and get your neofrom wipers while they're on offer.

This special offer from Opie Oils is for the excellent Trico NeoForm Beam Blades, which are the latest high performance single piece wiper blades. Original Equipment on a growing number of new vehicles, beam blades continue to grow in popularity. Designed with sleek modern styling to compliment the aesthetics of today's vehicles, NeoForm blades have the look and function of the latest OE blades, but with the value-added performance of Teflon® resin. Each blade features a 'skin coating' that seals the aerodynamic spoiler to protect it from the elements for superior all weather performance. The patented, twin point coupler delivers constant, even pressure across the entire windshield for a smoother, more consistent wipe. Typical traditional wiper blades have only 6 or 8 pressure points, while NeoForm beam blades' infinite number of pressure points continuous pressure across the length of the wiper. NeoForm blades are uniquely engineered to provide conformed wrap to today's highly curved windscreens. They provide; Enhanced Durability, Superior All Weather Performance, an Aerodynamic Profile, and are easy to install. We’ve seen Dealers selling these wiper blades for as much as £25 each! At Opie Oils we are charging between £20 and £30 for two depending on the size etc with an automatic 10% discount for Members. If you are not already registered as a Member on our website, you will need to do so here to get the 10% Members Discount Register Here We are offering for a limited period an additional 15% discount on top of the normal 10% that we offer to Members so saving up to 25%! To take advantage of this offer, you will need to be registered on our website as a Club Member which will give you 10% discount. To get the additional 15% you will need to use the following voucher at checkout when you purchase the wiper blades. BB1 To find the beamblades for your vehicle, please use the following look-up tool http://www.trico.eu.com/aftermarket/pro ... ue/vehicle Then note the combination that you need, for example NF450 and NF500 (all Neoform Blades are prefixed with the letters “NF”) and look up your combination here on these pages Matching Sets (ie NF500 & NF500) Non-Matching Sets (ie NF430 & NF600) Singles (ie 1 x NF600) Next, buy them on our website, using the discount voucher at checkout. This offer will finish on Sunday 11th April. Finally, we are so confident that you will be happy with these blades that we offer a full money-back guarantee so long as they are returned to us within 7 days of purchase. The www.opieoils.co.uk Team NB. Prices exclude carriage http://www.opieoils.co.uk/t-carriage.aspx

For those that have pm'd or mailed me, I will close this finally on Tuesday 31st March at midnight.................no more extensions after then. So, last orders please at this superb price! Cheers Guy

This finishes midnight Sunday 29th March! Hurry...................last orders please! Cheers Guy

Pro S / Pro R @ £37.49 for 5 litres (£7.50 a litre) Buy from our web site with this special link until midnight on Sunday (29th March): http://www.opieoils.co.uk/p-60117-silko ... offer.aspx We've negotiated a special price on a limited amount of Silkolene Pro S and Pro R in 5 litre tubs and we're passing on the savings - just £37.49 including VAT for 5 litres (usual price £51.75 for Pro S / £50.60 for Pro R). To make sure we don't sell more than we've got, we're running a special price promotion for members of this forum and just a few others for THIS WEEKEND ONLY. So, if you want to get some top-quality, ester based fully synthetic oil at this special price, you'll need to order by midnight on Sunday 29th March. The offer applies to Silkolene Pro S 5w-40, Pro S 10w-50 and Pro R 15w-50. You won't find this offer advertised anywhere on our web site, and you'll need to use this special link to get these prices: http://www.opieoils.co.uk/p-60117-silko ... offer.aspx Motul 300 V - Buy 4 litres, get 2 free We've also got a special offer on very limited quantities of Motul 300V 5w-30, 5w-40, 10w-40, 15w-50 - another quality, fully synthetic, ester based oil. It's top-end stuff and doesn't come cheap - usual price for 4 litres is between £52.90 and £56.35 depending on viscosity, but with 50% extra free you're getting a great deal. If you want to take advantage of this offer, visit: http://www.opieoils.co.uk/p-60116-motul ... itres.aspx Cheers folks, have a good weekend! - Guy

That is correct, they do pull fuel from the same place. However, fuel is dirty stuff so all the clean fuel at the top of the giant store is what the majors use, the stuff at the bottom of the store is more dirty as the sediment etc all settles, this is what they sell to supermarkets etc so its cheaper, the dreggs if you will. Cheers Guy

I know the 10w-60 wins on consumption, but the Pro S wins on quality and protection. Cheers Guy

Yep, it is ineed the ribena. Cheers Guy

Not shit as such, but it does come from the bottom of the pile. Cheers Guy

You should do better with something like this for 300bhp! http://www.opieoils.co.uk/p-1145-silkol ... gines.aspx There are a few guys here who use and swear by it Cheers guy

Somewhere near the beginning I guess :shrug:

If you are "modding" your car and adding BHP then consider your oil choice carefully as the stock manufacturers recommended oil will not give you the protection that your engine requires. A standard oil will not be thermally stable enough to cope with higher temperatures without "shearing" meaning that the oil will not give the same protection after a couple of thousand miles as it it when it was new. Let’s start with the fundamentals. An engine is a device for converting fuel into motive power. Car enthusiasts get so deep into the details they lose sight of this! To get more power, an engine must be modified such that it converts more fuel per minute into power than it did in standard form. To produce 6.6 million foot-pounds per minute of power (ie 200 BHP) a modern engine will burn about 0.5 litres of fuel per minute.(Equivalent to 18mpg at 120mph). So, to increase this output to 300BHP or 9.9 million foot-pounds per minute it must be modified to burn (in theory) 0.75 litres. However, fuel efficiency often goes out of the window when power is the only consideration, so the true fuel burn will be rather more than 0.75 litres/min. That’s the fundamental point, here’s the fundamental problem: Less than 30% of the fuel (assuming it’s petrol) is converted to all those foot-pounds. The rest is thrown away as waste heat. True, most of it goes down the exhaust, but over 10% has to be eliminated from the engine internals, and the first line of defence is the oil. More power means a bigger heat elimination problem. Every component runs hotter; For instance, piston crowns and rings will be running at 280-300C instead of a more normal 240-260C, so it is essential that the oil films on cylinder walls provide an efficient heat path to the block casting, and finally to the coolant. Any breakdown or carbonisation of the oil will restrict the heat transfer area, leading to serious overheating. A modern synthetic lubricant based on true temperature-resistant synthetics is essential for long-term reliability. At 250C+, a mineral or hydrocracked mineral oil, particularly a 5W/X or 10W/X grade, is surprisingly volatile, and an oil film around this temperature will be severely depleted by evaporation loss. Back in the 1970s the solution was to use a thick oil, typically 20W/50; in the late1980s even 10W/60 grades were used. But in modern very high RPM engines with efficient high-delivery oil pumps thick oils waste power, and impede heat transfer in some situations. A light viscosity good synthetic formulated for severe competition use is the logical and intelligent choice for the 21st century. You should seriously consider a "true" synthetic for "shear stability" and the right level of protection. Petroleum oils tend to have low resistance to “shearing” because petroleum oils are made with light weight basestocks to begin with, they tend to burn off easily in high temperature conditions which causes deposit formation and oil consumption. As a result of excessive oil burning and susceptibility to shearing (as well as other factors) petroleum oils must be changed more frequently than synthetics. True synthetic oils (PAO’s and Esters) contain basically no waxy contamination to cause crystallization and oil thickening at cold temperatures. In addition, synthetic basestocks do not thin out very much as temperatures increase. So, pour point depressants are unnecessary and higher viscosity basestock fluids can be used which will still meet the "W" requirements for pumpability. Hence, little or no VI improver additive would need to be used to meet the sae 30, 40 or 50 classification while still meeting 0W or 5W requirements. The end result is that very little shearing occurs within true synthetic oils because they are not "propped up" with viscosity index improvers. There simply is no place to shear back to. In fact, this is easy to prove by just comparing synthetic and petroleum oils of the same grade. Of course, the obvious result is that your oil remains "in grade" for a much longer period of time for better engine protection and longer oil life. If you would like advice then please feel free to ask. Cheers Guy

This is something different but well worth reading. It was written by our learned friend in Stoke and we think is of interest to any car or bike owner. Well…………! In The Beginning there was Carbon and Hydrogen. These got together in accordance with rules forged in the Big Bang (yes, really!) to make methane, one carbon atom with 4 hydrogens stuck on. A bit later, (only 4000 million years) other atoms started getting together and finally came up with Life, a self-reproducing chemical mix. The reproducing bit was quite fun, but after 600 million years even that gets boring. So, a more or less intelligent life-form invented The Car and the Motorcycle, the ultimate boredom cure. This was, and is, powered by the Internal Combustion Engine, which must have fuel. Methane is a fuel, which means it burns in air to produce energy, but unfortunately it’s a gas; a tank-full would propel a Honda 50 for about half a mile. But! Methane had not been idle since the formation of planet Earth, and had joined up with more carbons and hydrogens to make chains called ‘hydrocarbons’. Well, they weren’t called that at the time. They had to wait for a life-form to evolve that liked giving things names, and a hundred and 20-odd years ago chemists had to learn Latin, so they called the one with five carbons ‘pentane’, the 6-carbon one ‘hexane’, then ‘heptane’ then ….wait for it…. the 8-carbon one ‘octane’ and so on. (If we were naming them now the last one would be called ‘eightane’ so you would need 95 minimum REN for your engine.) All these things were liquids, very thin and volatile, and pure concentrated energy. The Hildebrand and Wolfmuller (rough 1894 equivalent of the Honda 50) now did 100 miles to the tank full. Unlike water, these liquids don’t stand around in lakes. They are hidden underground in porous rock so you have to drill for them. The old name was ‘petroleum’ meaning ‘rock oil’ but this was soon shortened to ‘petrol’. The petrol came out of the wells mixed with heavy oil, so it had to be distilled off in an oil refinery. Early on, the pale coloured stuff that evaporated easily and caught fire very easily was sold as internal combustion engine fuel. It was a simple as that. ‘Octane Number’ hadn’t been invented, but in modern terms this ‘light petroleum fraction’ was about 50 Octane. Now we all know that in the GCSE Science engine The Piston squeezes the air/fuel mixture, then The Spark Plug ignites it to produce The Power Stroke. The trouble is, with 50 octane fuel if The Piston squeezes too much the heat generated by compression makes the stuff Go Bang prematurely before The Spark Plug gets a look in, giving a Power Stroke with as much push as a fairy’s fart. This is why early engines couldn’t use compression ratios above 4 : 1, and 10BHP per litre was seen as hot stuff. Engines improved but petrol didn’t and even some time after WW 1 a touring 1000cc engine only turned out about 25BHP, and a hot-shot Sport version with the latest overhead valves would need a good tuner to get 50BHP. So finally some effort was made to stop primitive petrol going bang too soon, and a variable compression engine was invented for research. (The ‘CFR’ engine, as used for finding Research and Motor Octane Numbers, RON and MON, to this very day.) Early on researchers found that the bung in the CFR head could be really screwed down if a heavy liquid called ‘TEL’ (tetra ethyl lead) was added. This was really effective and cheap, and allowed the ‘straight’ petrol to be upped to 90 or even 100 octane, and a whole load of exciting high-power engines were designed around these fuels. This leaded fuel survived into the late 1990s, but much earlier an amazing discovery had been made. The shape of the petrol molecules was very important. ‘Octane’ if the ‘straight eight’ version with 8 carbons in a row had an ‘octane number’ of 25. It was only the mutant octane with 5 carbons down the middle and the others sticking out from the sides that gave the best results at high compression. (This special octane is still used as a standard for 100 octane. Proper name is 2,2,4-trimethyl pentane.) Today, ‘petrol’ is really a synthetic fluid built up from oil industry feedstocks. Very little of it is unmodified distillate from crude oil. It is tailor made to include the best compression-resisting molecules so that no poisonous and polluting lead compounds are needed to reach 95 or even 98 octane. Nothing much is added, apart from a touch of detergent to keep the engine top end clean. Quite a lot of petrol now has 5% ‘renewable’ alcohol as a planet-saving gesture, but this also improves the octane number (by about 1 ) so there’s nothing wrong with that. Anyway, if you have a motoring holiday instead of flying ComaJet, you are keeping that carbon footprint down….and paying too much tax as well…..but that’s another story. Fascinating stuff! Cheers Guy

Ok, the XTR 10w-40 semi synthetic it a good one, but to be honest on track at 130degc its really going to struggle as its just not deisgned for that. The shelf life of the oil sealed is around 4-5years so give it a good shake and give it ago as it will cope with 130degc much better then a semi, the reason why there is no blue smoke is because the synthetics burn clean, mineral based oils have the blue tinge to the smoke. The Synt S is ok but not as good as the 0w-40 so between the 10w-40 XTR and the Mobil 1 0w-40. Our choicve would be the ester based Silkolene Pro S 10w-50 here http://www.opieoils.co.uk/p-1145-silkol ... gines.aspx Cheers Guy

Anyone for some oil advice? Feel free to ask.

Hey guys, We have decided to extend our free shipping offer until Midnight Wednesday 11th February. To take advantage of this offer enter Discount Code* FREESHIP209 at the basket or checkout. Available to orders of £25 or more. All the best, The Opieoils.co.uk team

FREE CARRIAGE ON UK ORDERS OVER £25 UNTIL SUNDAY 8TH FEBRUARY Time for a service or an oil change? Now could be a good time to buy because we're running a free shipping offer until midnight Sunday 8th February 2009, for orders of £25 or over, on deliveries to mainland UK only and does not include trade customers. But Opie Oils isn't just about lubricants and we have a wide range of car parts too, from brands such as Brembo, Denso, Trico and more. To receive free carriage all you need to do is enter discount code* FREESHIP209 at the basket or checkout! All the best, The Opieoils.co.uk Team

Hi Guys, Just a reminder that our NEW YEAR special offer ends this Sunday. 15% off ALL products across our entire range... ...including new cleaning, polishing & detailing products from Muc-Off, Meguiars and Bilt Hamber. Don't forget that if you select your club when signing up to Opieoils.co.uk you will also get your 10% members discount, which makes 25% off your order if you place it by this coming Sunday. For more information on this offer click here Useful Links - Car Oils by Grade, Brand, type or Specification - Motorcycle Oils by Grade, Brand, type or Specification The Opieoils.co.uk Team

The Denso VK16 is ideal http://www.opieoils.co.uk/p-4218-denso- ... -vk16.aspx Cheers Guy

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