What would you give...?
05-16-2009, 03:22 PM
#46
Racer
Thread Starter
I meant get rid of the oil squirters so it's one (or eight depending on how you look at it) less places to worry about the oil supply having to feed, not the windage.
I'm intentionally very not interested in increasing the displacement of the engine to limit the transaxle torque. I may end up regretting it, but I'm going to plan some high rpm testing with the modifications I've listed on here before when I install the new motor and turn the wick up.
Some people have kinda' ragged on me here for wanting to be secretive, so I'm going to divulge something else real quick. As I just mentioned above, I mentioned plans in another post some time back about routing oil externally into the top of the number two main thru the plug in the top of the block by drilling a small vertical hole thru the back of the main. I would make a tube that fit very tight into the back of the main and simply run a braided line. For reasons discussed in the other post I believe this would cure singling out the number 2/6 rod throw. Anyway, I've looked at building a simple to install high output naturally aspirated engine with two intakes and forward facing throttle bodies so I could make a purpose built dry sump tank that sat in the vee of the block and a single stage pump to evacuate the pan. The plumbing and installation would require very little knowledge and no fabrication for a user. The oil feed modification would still fit with the tank I guess is my point. The only engineering problem I see now is that the tanks are ideally tall and slender to avoid the side to side sloshing, and the unit on the motor would have to be designed well to avoid any of those issues and allow sufficient air removal.
I'm intentionally very not interested in increasing the displacement of the engine to limit the transaxle torque. I may end up regretting it, but I'm going to plan some high rpm testing with the modifications I've listed on here before when I install the new motor and turn the wick up.
Some people have kinda' ragged on me here for wanting to be secretive, so I'm going to divulge something else real quick. As I just mentioned above, I mentioned plans in another post some time back about routing oil externally into the top of the number two main thru the plug in the top of the block by drilling a small vertical hole thru the back of the main. I would make a tube that fit very tight into the back of the main and simply run a braided line. For reasons discussed in the other post I believe this would cure singling out the number 2/6 rod throw. Anyway, I've looked at building a simple to install high output naturally aspirated engine with two intakes and forward facing throttle bodies so I could make a purpose built dry sump tank that sat in the vee of the block and a single stage pump to evacuate the pan. The plumbing and installation would require very little knowledge and no fabrication for a user. The oil feed modification would still fit with the tank I guess is my point. The only engineering problem I see now is that the tanks are ideally tall and slender to avoid the side to side sloshing, and the unit on the motor would have to be designed well to avoid any of those issues and allow sufficient air removal.
