About Us
The Valvemaster™ Story
With January 2000 looming owners of classic cars are facing the demise of leaded petrol with a mixture of fear and anxiety about what this means for them.
The concern in this country is whether there is anything out there that works as well as lead providing the necessary valve seat recession (VSR) protection for the estimated two million cars with soft exhaust valve seats. Quoting the Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs “We need more time to find an additive that can do a large percentage of what lead does”.
Well owners of older cars, classic and everyday, need look no further. The product is Valvemaster.
Valvemaster™
The late nineties witnessed the discontinued use of lead in automotive fuels and an alternative to lead was required by owners of classic and early vehicles to protect valve seats from premature wear and recession. Castrol’s technical team chose Valvemaster a unique formulation, offering the best protection after lead. The addition of a friction modifier to Valvemaster Plus makes it the most effective and cost effective solution for use in classic performance vehicles benefiting from higher octane fuel. Both products also contain an ethanol stabiliser to protect your fuel system from the harmful effects of E10 petrol. Promapac, in partnership with Innospec, the manufacturers of Valvemaster, continues to make Valvemaster range available.
www.classicvalvemaster.co.uk
sales@classicvalvemaster.co.uk
Castrol Classic Oils
In 1993 Castrol UK, in partnership with Promapac operating as Castrol Classic Oils, steered the introduction of Castrol’s early lubricant grades designed for vintage, veteran, classic cars and motorcycles. Castrol’s Classic Oil grades use latest technology, low detergent base oils in the appropriate viscosities on which early vehicles were designed to run. Making the right choice of oil has now become simply a matter of looking in the owners’ vehicle handbook for the manufacturer’s original Castrol recommendation. Castrol Classic Oil range is widely available throughout the UK, continental Europe plus many other countries worldwide
www.castrol.com/uk/classics
info@classicoils.co.uk
ForLife™ Advanced Engine Coolant
In the late eighties Promapac oversaw the reintroduction of Forlife Advanced Engine Coolant, originally used by car race teams worldwide in competition events throughout the 1950’s and sixties before the common use of air cooled competition engines. However with the ongoing popularity of classic car racing and competition using conventionally cooled engines, a resurgence in demand for this high performance coolant occurred.
Forlife provides high engine heat transfer with high boiling point to a maximum of 180C, protects engine and cooling system internals from corrosion, offers frost protection down to -42C, contains a unique red dye PH colour indicator to warn of head gasket failure from combustion gasses in the coolant. Promapac’s Forlife is a low cost and highly effective advanced engine coolant available throughout the UK and continental Europe.
