# Oil... how does it work? \[split\]

**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/oil-how-does-it-work-split/262189
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**Created:** [January 6, 2012, 11:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/oil-how-does-it-work-split/262189 "2012-01-06T23:40:40Z")
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### Author: ![Vovchandr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/vovchandr/32/6275_2.png) [@Vovchandr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vovchandr)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2012, 8:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/oil-how-does-it-work-split/262189/92 "2012-01-09T08:52:04Z")

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And this is where you are wrong.

> SAE 20 @ 32\* is still more viscous than SAE50 @ 212

> [@Fs:1997 honda prelude( SOLD)](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-1997-honda-prelude-sold/47481/53):
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> I’ll bet you 1000 dollars right now that the boiled oil, which is an SAE 30, pours faster than the SAE 5 did at cold temps.
> 
> 5W30-SAE 5@zero degrees, SAE 30@210 degrees.

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