Alkylated Naphthalenes vs Esters in Oil

davidyan · 11-04-2009, 10:07 PM

Well, I haven't had time to post for a while but saw in another thread that the Ester oil debate is still going strong... While from past posts, its clear that Mobil 1 moved away from Esters in its current SuperSyn formulation, I've found (various online sources) that they have replaced it with something called Alkylated Naphthalenes. Not knowing anything about it, I found a technical research paper about it where it also states that it works well as compared to having Esters (some parts are hard to understand, I'm not a chemical engineer).

See the article here: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...g=content;col1

Anyone know of this? It would be nice to have the protection of the Esters that Nissan recommends at the Mobil 1 price.

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davidyan Base Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: CA Posts: 244 Drives: PG 370Z Sport 6MT Rep Power: 15	Alkylated Naphthalenes vs Esters in Oil Well, I haven't had time to post for a while but saw in another thread that the Ester oil debate is still going strong... While from past posts, its clear that Mobil 1 moved away from Esters in its current SuperSyn formulation, I've found (various online sources) that they have replaced it with something called Alkylated Naphthalenes. Not knowing anything about it, I found a technical research paper about it where it also states that it works well as compared to having Esters (some parts are hard to understand, I'm not a chemical engineer). See the article here: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...g=content;col1 Anyone know of this? It would be nice to have the protection of the Esters that Nissan recommends at the Mobil 1 price.