A Comparison of Gasoline Direct Injection and Port Fuel Injection Vehicles: Part II - Lubricant Oil Performance and Engine Wear 1999-01-1499
Four 1998 Mitsubishi Carismas, two equipped with direct injection (GDI) and two with port fuel injection engines (PFI) were tested in a designed experiment to determine the effect of mileage accumulation cycle, engine type, fuel and lubricant type on engine wear and engine oil performance parameters. Fuel types were represented by an unadditised base fuel meeting EEC year 2000 specifications and the same base fuel plus synthetic deposit control additive packages. Crankcase oils were represented by two types (1) a 5W-30 API SJ/ILSAC GF-2 type engine oil and (2) a 10W-40 API SH/CF ACEA A3/ B3-96 engine oil. The program showed that specific selection of oil additive chemistry may reduce formation of intake valve deposits in GDI cars.. In general, G-DI engines produced more soot and more pentane insolubles and were found to be more prone to what appears to be soot induced wear than PFI engines. Again, proper selection of oil additive chemistry provided sufficient engine durability protection in both types of engines.
Citation: Bardasz, E., Arters, D., Schiferl, E., and Righi, D., "A Comparison of Gasoline Direct Injection and Port Fuel Injection Vehicles: Part II - Lubricant Oil Performance and Engine Wear," SAE Technical Paper 1999-01-1499, 1999, https://doi.org/10.4271/1999-01-1499. Download Citation
Author(s):
Ewa A. Bardasz, David C. Arters, Elizabeth A. Schiferl, Dino W. Righi
Affiliated:
The Lubrizol Corporation
Pages: 17
Event:
International Fuels & Lubricants Meeting & Exposition
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Also in:
SAE 1999 Transactions - Journal of Fuels and Lubricants-V108-4
Related Topics:
Fuel injection
Engine lubricants
Lubricating oils
Wear
Particulate matter (PM)
Crankcases
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