Red Line Synthetic Oil Corporation is a company that produces a full range of synthetic lubricants

Synthetic oil

Synthetic oil is a lubricant consisting of chemical compounds that are artificially made . Synthetic lubricants can be manufactured using chemically modified petroleum components rather than whole crude oil, but can also be synthesized from other raw materials...

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History

Red Line was founded in 1979 by Tim Kerrigan and Peter Filice in Benicia, California.

In 1986, Roy Howell, a Cornell graduate and chemist working for Lubrizol

Lubrizol

The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company that produces and supplies technologies, which are designed to improve the quality and performance of products in the global transportation, industrial and consumer markets...

, was appointed as Chief Chemist at Red Line Synthetic Oil Corporation and is currently Vice President of the company.

Products

Red Line started as a company producing oils for the racing industry, later expanding their business to the more mainstream high-performance, enthusiast, and passenger car markets.

They have a full line up of high quality multigrade and monograde polyol ester base stock (Group V) engine and gear lubricants.

The full product list includes over 100 items, including:

• Passenger car motor oil
  Motor oil
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• Racing motor oils
• Four-stroke motorcycle oils
• Gear oil
  Gear oil
  Gear oil is a motor oil made specifically for transmissions, transfer cases, and differentials in automobiles, trucks, and other machinery. It is of a higher viscosity to better protect the gears and usually is associated with a strong sulfur smell. The high viscosity ensures transfer of...
  
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• Grease
  Grease (lubricant)
  The term grease is used to describe semisolid lubricants. Although the word grease is also used to describe rendered fat of animals, in the context of lubrication, grease typically applies to a material consisting of a soap emulsified with mineral or vegetable oil...
  
  
• Assembly lubricants
• Hydraulic fluid
  Hydraulic fluid
  Hydraulic fluids, also called hydraulic liquids, are the medium by which power is transferred in hydraulic machinery. Common hydraulic fluids are based on mineral oil or water...
  
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• Automatic transmission fluids
• CVT fluids
• Manual transmission fluids
• Engine break-in additive
• Two-stroke oil
  Two-stroke oil
  Two-stroke oil is an engine oil intended for use in two-stroke engines....
  
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• Two-stroke watercraft injection oil
• Two-stroke snowmobile oil
• Compressor oil
• Karting clutch oil
• Suspension
  Suspension (vehicle)
  Suspension is the term given to the system of springs, shock absorbers and linkages that connects a vehicle to its wheels. Suspension systems serve a dual purpose — contributing to the car's roadholding/handling and braking for good active safety and driving pleasure, and keeping vehicle occupants...
  
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• Power steering
  Power steering
  Power steering helps drivers steer vehicles by augmenting steering effort of the steering wheel.Hydraulic or electric actuators add controlled energy to the steering mechanism, so the driver needs to provide only modest effort regardless of conditions. Power steering helps considerably when a...
  
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• Water surfactant
  Surfactant
  Surfactants are compounds that lower the surface tension of a liquid, the interfacial tension between two liquids, or that between a liquid and a solid...
  
  
• Water remover
• Fuel system cleaner
• Diesel fuel additives

Racing

Starting in 2009, they are the official oil for the Formula Mazda Challenge series Other partnerships and contingency programs include Drag racing , Road Racing , Time Attack , Pro Stock Bike racing , and Motorcycle racing .

Red Line Synthetic Oil Corporation sponsored touring car racer Eddie Garrison in the Grand Bayou Race Series in 2007. Red Line also sponsored Doug Kalitta's NHRA Top Fuel Dragster beginning in 2009 and Stillen's Rally-Spec Nissan GT-R.

External links

• Red Line Synthetic Oil Corporation - Official Website.