AGIP Novecento 50

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Single-grade SAE 50 engine oil rated API SC for veteran-car engines, including worn ones with enlarged clearances.

Classification
Product line Eni Novecento 12 oils
SAE viscosity 50What SAE means
Intended use passenger cars
API class What API means
Typical properties
Viscosity at 100 °C 21 mm²/s
Viscosity index 105
Pour point -18 °C
Flash point 260 °C
Density 900 kg/m³

Description

AGIP Novecento 50 is a single-grade SAE 50 engine oil from the Novecento line for the petrol and diesel engines of veteran vehicles from the first half of the twentieth century, including worn engines with large clearances. Its detergency is deliberately moderate, and it is compatible with the sealing materials of the period.

The oil is rated API SC; it holds no official carmaker approvals.

Typical figures: kinematic viscosity 21 mm²/s at 100 °C, viscosity index 105, pour point -18 °C, flash point 260 °C and density 900 kg/m³.

Application

Petrol and diesel engines of veteran vehicles from the first half of the twentieth century, including worn engines with enlarged clearances.

Worth knowing

The Eni data sheet aims this oil at classic vehicles from 1900-1950 and names both petrol and diesel engines, yet the specifications section lists only API SC. The S in an API code marks a petrol class, and there is no diesel C-series class in the entry. The mirror case in the same line is Novecento Truck 50, for classic lorries and heavy machinery: at the same SAE 50 it has only API CF and no petrol class. The data sheet figures differ too: 19.1 mm²/s at 100 °C for the truck version against 21 mm²/s here, pour point -12 °C against -18 °C, flash point 240 °C against 260 °C. Decoding the API code explains how to read the S and C letters, including double ratings such as SJ/CF-4.

The other Novecento passenger-car engine oils have a different viscosity, for example the seasonal SAE 40 with API SJ or the multigrade 15W-50 and 20W-50 with API SN and API SM. For an engine built for seasonal SAE 50, switching to any of them means not only a different API class but also a different viscosity grade.

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