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Winter time means hibernation for your hot rod. But is your engine oil working during these months asleep?
Most hot rodders and racers have their cars in storage or apart for improvements over the winter months. Usually that entails checking the coolant, pulling the battery, perhaps parking the car on some jacks and maybe a box of mothballs to ward off any critters. Keeping the moisture away from your car is the goal and there are many things that you can do to help their automotive hibernation – but what about inside the engine?
Moisture from temperature variations can occur anywhere in your car, including inside the engine. Modern API oils are designed for every day operation and to protect emission control equipment like catalytic converters. These oils are also lack traditional anti-wear additives (such as zinc dithiophosphates) which is also important for flat-tappet camshafts. In short, they fall short when it comes to protecting our traditional hot rod powerplants.
Driven Hot Rod Oil is designed specifically for older style historic car and hot rod engines and features US Military specification rust and corrosion inhibitors. Pictured are the results of a 1,000 hour severe storage simulation test. The surface treated with Driven Hot Rod Oil showed no rust or corrosion!
Driven Hot Rod Oil is designed to protect traditional and muscle car engines of all types, especially through times of long storage and between cruises. Cold and initial start-ups are when most component wear occurs. In fact, a recent European study of Heavy Duty Diesel engines revealed a 50% reduction in cold-start wear by using synthetic oil in comparison to conventional oil. Driven Hot Rod Oils are developed with protection additives to guard your engine from rust and corrosion and meet the latest SAE J300 cold cranking requirements. This combination gives your engine the cold-start protection it needs as well as the Zinc anti-wear chemistry to keep the camshaft protected. No other oil provides this unique combination of lubricant chemistry.
When your car sits in the garage over the winter, Driven Hot Rod Oil fights corrosive wear and rust. Then when spring blooms and the garage door opens, Driven is there to protect during that initial start-up. It’s a proven fact that flat-tappet cam followers operate on partial films of oil some of the time which means an oil must have anti-wear additives to avoid rapid wear and distress. Engines developed for modern cars lack these additives, however the Hot Rod Oil has Zinc Dithiophosphate that will provide the protection the valvetrain requires.
Driven’s Hot Rod Oil is there when you’re on the road, during cold cranks and even when the engine is in storage. Treat your hot rod right with an engine oil designed for your engine’s unique needs.
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