2008 rules changes!

Dave Goob Cook · 12-06-2007, 10:28 AM

We pick up more Dzus fasteners and tools than anything else every week.....still can't understand the timing pointer thing.

Riddle me this Batmen:
If you add an oil accumulator, and it "activates", where does the oil to re-fill it come from? (this is a rhetorical question)

Seems to me to be a zero gain deal.....you either starve it during the operation, or after, but any oil flowing from a wet sump pump is diverted to re-fill the accumulator anyway, seems like a waste of time/dollars for anything other than pre-priming the engine on startup.

How do you get the oil in the accumulator up to operating temperature?

I ran a stocker type pan with zero oil pressure in shutdown for years, and never scuffed a bearing.

Just lucky I guess? Of course, I let my stuff run pretty well flooded with oil, in regards to pump volume, clearances, and metering, not the way I'd run a class engine for HP.

12-06-2007, 10:28 AM	#28
Dave Goob Cook Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Indy Posts: 422 Likes: 0 Liked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: 2008 rules changes! We pick up more Dzus fasteners and tools than anything else every week.....still can't understand the timing pointer thing. Riddle me this Batmen: If you add an oil accumulator, and it "activates", where does the oil to re-fill it come from? (this is a rhetorical question) Seems to me to be a zero gain deal.....you either starve it during the operation, or after, but any oil flowing from a wet sump pump is diverted to re-fill the accumulator anyway, seems like a waste of time/dollars for anything other than pre-priming the engine on startup. How do you get the oil in the accumulator up to operating temperature? I ran a stocker type pan with zero oil pressure in shutdown for years, and never scuffed a bearing. Just lucky I guess? Of course, I let my stuff run pretty well flooded with oil, in regards to pump volume, clearances, and metering, not the way I'd run a class engine for HP.