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Tested: RSR's Ran Up Oil Treatment, Power in a Bottle
By Mike Kojima
"Mike, MotoIQ has to try our Ran-Up oil treatment", RS-R's John Masuda would say to me every time I saw him over the past year. "It gives you 5-12 more whp in our testing and I really want you to try it". Yeah right I would think. Sounds too good to be true.
Not wanting to test something we didn't think would work we had to wait for John to show up one day at our office door with a box full of Ran-Up oil treatment. "Try it", he insisted, "you can try it on your dyno or our dyno". Our friends pro drivers Ken Gushi and Dai Yoshihara had tried the stuff and told us they could feel the difference.
First we should probably explain what Ran-Up is. It is an oil additive with an unusual constitution. It is a 0-20w synthetic oil full of ceramic nano particles that act like billions of miniature ball bearings in your engine.
The particles are so tiny they pass right through your oil filter and stay suspended in the oil. The particles are very small, hard and very round. They work exactly like tiny ball bearings to reduce friction, metal to metal contact, vibration and greatly reduce wear. These properties also improve power and fuel economy.

The easiest mod ever! Just pour it in and drive 30 minutes. Project GD STI is the first test dummy for Ran-Up in the MotoIQ fleet mostly because we had just changed the oil. Ran up should make a difference in this engine but it usually makes a bigger difference in engines that have more friction like ones with more cylinders and diesels.
Using Ran-Up is as easy as simply pouring it into your crankcase and checking to make sure your oil is not overfilled. One bottle of Ran-Up treats up to 8 quarts of any kind of motor oil, synthetic or mineral. Ran-Up works on all 4 stroke, rotary and diesel engines. RS-R warned us not to try it in two strokes which bummed us out because we race karts and scooters and we were eager to try it in those small high revving engines. RS-R also warned us not to use Ran-Up in anything other than the engine's crank case, this means don't put it into transmissions or differentials.
Ran-Up's benefits become apparent after the car is driven for about 30 miles, which allows enough time to burnish the nano particles into the metal and will still be present after an oil change although its effectiveness may be reduced.
To give Ran-Up a quick and dirty test, we first decided to put it into our Project GD STI mostly because we had just changed the oil with brand new Moble One 0w40 in the crankcase. RS-R told us we would probably see a gain of 5-7 hp as this is a 4 cylinder engine. They typically see larger gains in engines with more cylinders due to higher amounts of internal friction.
After shaking the bottle thoroughly we carefully dumped it into our Subies crankcase noting that the additive was a milky gray in color. Once that was done, we set out on a 30 minute freeway drive to burnish the additive into our engine's metal parts.

Our Project GD Subaru STI was our first subject for testing RS-R's Ran-Up oil treatment.
During our drive we noticed a few things. On a Subaru you can usually hear the whine of the turbocharger quite well. This is because the turbo is mounted up high and close to the firewall. Normally when going down the freeway, you can hear a continuous whine from the turbo, even at light throttle. The first thing we noticed is that the whine disappeared after a few minutes.
Next we noticed that our idle had become very smooth and you could definitely feel less vibrations from the engine. Being skeptics of super additive claims, we were pretty amazed at these two things alone. After our drive it was time for a subjective test. Our friend Naji Dahi of Looney Tuning lives nearby and he dropped in to give us a hand to try to measure any power gains that Ran-Up might provide. If you drive an Evo or an STI Naji is a hell of a tuner.
As a dyno Naji uses a software package called Virtual Dyno that is set up for a car's particulars such as weight, tire size, gear ratio and calculated drag. 3rd gear pulls are done along a controlled road with a nearby weather station for adding ambient condition data. The Virtual Dyno software automatically calculates horsepower and torque from data extracted from data logging output. Note that this uses actual logged RPM data and thus calculates power exactly like a dyno does, not using an accelerometer which is dependent on the calibration and accuracy of the accelerometer.

Naji Dahi of Looney Tuning is an excellent tuner for the Evo and STI. Here Naji works over Project Evo X.
The Virtual Dyno software developers have even designed correction factors to correct their output to match several popular models of dynos. We selected the Dynojet correction factor simply because this is the most common dyno. Working with Naji we have found the road dyno software to be very repeatable to within 1-2 hp as long as we used the exact same controlled road area. The repeatability between runs is what is important for tuning.
To test Ran-Up we had done about 10 baseline and 10 after treatment runs. When we looked at the results we were pretty surprised!

Our first example is one of our higher powered baseline runs compared to a lower powered run with Ran-Up, in this example we gained 5 whp. We were being very conservative. 5 hp is about the minimum of what we got.
When reviewing our data, we were surprised to see that we had some gains, on every single Ran-Up equipped pass we made of at least 5 more whp! On one pass we made 11 hp. We did not want to report that result as that was cherry picking a low baseline run with a high post treatment run.

In this run we gained 9 whp. It is important to note that in every single run we did with Ran-Up we gained at least 5 hp from what we had with just plain oil! The runs with higher power were our later runs, perhaps the Ran-Up had burnished itself in further.
We were disappointed that the power outputs in the graphs did not show as pretty across the board power gains but more like gains in some parts of the powerband biased towards the top end. We are going to do our future testing on a chassis dyno to see if the dyno is more sensitive and has better resolution even though we have had good prior experience with Virtual Dyno. What is important to note is that we saw gains of 5 hp or more in every single one of our post treatment dyno charts and that the engine felt smoother and more responsive.
We also got about 0.5 mpg better on the first tankful with Ran-Up although that included some dyno pulls and tuning. We will report on how it does later. We suspect that we will get some better results in the mileage department later.
We like what we see with Ran-Up so far, we will periodically test it for power gains and fuel economy increases in other vehicles in the MotoIQ fleet in the near future.
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since the link doesnt work i say its snake oil.....
Try this link. I don't your conclusion will change.

Edit: For some reason, the site software is blocking that site and replaces the site name in the URL with *s. You can go to the MotoIQ site and search for "Ran-up", but, IMNSHO, not worth the effort.
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Gaining power from oil is a real thing. Last year at PRI I attended a seminar hosted by Joe Gibbs Driven racing oils regarding how proper oil systems and how you can gain in power. It was a huge deal when they picked up 3HP by using a 0w-20 viscosity for racing versus the typical 30wt racing oil. Essentially you want to use as thin weight oil as you can that will still maintain your hydrodynamic wedge when it comes to a true racing application. You manipulate how thin of a weight oil you can use based off bearing clearances, operating oil pressure, coatings used, etc. Same can be said about using something too thick. You actually end up generating more heat and robbing the engine of power, not to mention causing unforseen issues like cavitation at your oil pump due to the viscosity at higher rpm. That will eventually result in a catastrophic failure from lack of oil pressure.

A high quality 5w-30 ester based synthetic will pick you up a couple hp for sure, I stay away from additives like this though. Don't worry about it too much beyond that until you are ready to build a true race motor with a dry sump!

Just my .02cents on oil viscosity haha.

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