Originally Posted By: Cujet
A data point of 1.
I have a turbocharged, high boost 4 cylinder car with a stand alone engine management system. I record knock events.
When I was running a variable vane turbo, I would add plenty of synthetic two stroke oil (about 100 to 1) in an attempt at unsticking the carboned up variable vanes. It did work, by the way. I'd drive to work at low power and enough oil would coat the vanes to unstick them.
I never noticed any additional knock events, once the vanes free'd up. Generally about 4 knock events per pull.
Thank you, very interesting read. And it seems according to reading elsewhere that it is a very nice lubricant which makes sense of course.