Red Line vs. Swepco

[wrack@attbi.com (Antaki)]

Hi all, not that I like open this old can of worms, but - 

I used to love Red Line trans oil, run it in my Scirocco 16V, my Vanagon
trans, and it seemed like the best available- **Until Last Night**!!!

Background:
While at S Car Go, (www.scargoracing.com) a shop in Marin county that
prepares Porsches for racing, builds custom engines, headers, you name
it! They have one that puts out 500HP at the rear wheels!. Indeed they
are widely known in Porsche racing circles, and do most excellent work.

The Point of this message:
I noticed that the only kind of oil in their shop is Swepco. One of them
had a transaxle apart on the bench, and I asked him his opinion of Red
Line vs Swepco. He told me that Red Line breaks down into a chalky
deposit on the parts, and leaves a thin liquid behind. He then showed
me, on the parts he was working on, exactly what he just told me. He
scraped the goo deposit off of a gear, and I could see that the stuff
coating the parts was red, and there was a layer of what looked like
watery oil on some parts. He also told me that he can take one look and
tell what was run in a gearbox, and sees a lot of Red Line-lubricated
trannys come in broken. 

They run ONLY Swepco oils and lubricants in these awesome, beautiful,
hand built, ex-freaking-spensive machines.

I'm sold. It's Swepco from now on for my trans oil from now on, and if I
upgrade from Mobil 1 Synth in my engines, it will be to Swepco. I'll
even look for their greases for the important stuff...

>rant off

Thanks for listning,

Ron Antaki
'88 Wolfsburg (das all-purpose machine)
'86 Syncro Westy (escape machine)
'88 Scirocco 16V 2.0L (yee, I say, yee haaa!!)


-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of John Rodgers
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 9:01 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Manual Tranny Oil Change


It's time to change the tranny oil on my 88 GL and I'm sticking with
Redline MT90. I have been looking at the Tranny section in Bentley, but
I'm dawgged if I can find a tranny drain plug in any of the pictures or
drawings anywhere. Filler, yes! Drain, No!

Can someone tell me where it is, and maybe point me to a picture?

Thanks,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver