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King Tut wrote:
“Imagine?” Hardly. “Remember”, would be more accurate.
God how I hate my jackstands. I really want a lift.
Had to take Monday night off to keep the divorce lawyer at bay. Tonight I wasn’t able to start until 11:30. New steering box plugs are now in. Worked fine. I bought extras so $10 and a set of them can be yours too. That’s 1/3rd of the other solutions available.
Also put in the starter and motor mounts.
Last night I worked from 11-1AM, putting in the tranny mounts, putting a couple more bolts tranny>motor and putting an OEM oil cooler back on.
I dunno about that OEM oil cooler. Compared to my bigger oil cooler that had ducted air blasting right at it, the OEM oil cooler just strikes me as a limpdick SOB. And the top pipe on the oil cooler is so long that I think maybe the OEM oil cooler creates almost as much oil plumbing volume as my big oil cooler.
I have the hose adapters to fasten the big oil cooler to the OEM oil filter adapter/tstat housing. I’m debating what to do on this one.
I’m still kinda stunned tho re. the behavior of the oiling system with an Accusump and no cranks scraper. Since I don’t really understand why that created oil pressure mayhem, I want to be extra cautious about diversions from OEM.
If eventually I do put the Accusump back in, I’ll do it similar to how Al K did his. His sump is a lot closer to the engine then mine and he uses smaller dia plumbing.
I was thinking about cutting the top oil pipe and putting a second oe oil cooler in series.
Ranger wrote:
Keep repeating that mantra. Over and over.
With the bone stock setup I don’t think I have ever seen oil temps over 220 in summer in the Southeast.
K.I.S.S. Keep it simple, Scott.
Steve D wrote:
[quote]Ranger wrote:
Keep repeating that mantra. Over and over.
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Mantra+Tantra=Mobil 1. 
Ranger wrote:
[quote]turbo329is wrote:
Hopefully you’re kidding.[/quote]
Yeah, I think he meant in parallel. 
No oil cooler and the temp goes to 245. Got 3 engines with this set-up.
Pull the oil spud from an “e” engine and delete the oil cooler.
RP
Patton wrote:
[quote]No oil cooler and the temp goes to 245. Got 3 engines with this set-up.
Pull the oil spud from an “e” engine and delete the oil cooler.
RP[/quote]
That’s another idea that’s pretty good. My big oil cooler only gave me 14deg of cooling…219 cooled to 205, roughly. I’m frankly a little surprised your oil got up to 245. Synthetic oil should be able to handle 245 without much problem.
The argument for any oil cooler at all just isn’t that strong. For the 9hr enduro, ok. For the 3hr enduros, maybe. For our sprints, I dunno.
I wish I better understood how the additional plumbing might exacerbate the oil starvation problem. More specifically, rapid recovery from starvation.
Maybe next week I’ll call up Metric Mechanic. They don’t like Accusumps. And then call Canton, the outfit that makes Accusumps, and get their thoughts.
Patton wrote:
[quote]No oil cooler and the temp goes to 245. Got 3 engines with this set-up.
Pull the oil spud from an “e” engine and delete the oil cooler.
RP[/quote]
I think I am going to give this a try.
It lives. Whoohoo. Mighty SpecE30 #6 is back.
Re. oil spud. I’ve not heard the term before, but it’s a threaded tube about 2" long. You remove the oil filter adapter from the block, thread the “spud” in, and then you can thread an oil filter directly on to the block. All models that came without oil coolers came in this config.
Ranger wrote:
I used to hit 285-295 with my supercharged Miata on warmer days. Ran Amsoil and changed it between track weekends. It’s pretty scary seeing your oil temps soar upwards near 300 at first, but once you get adjusted to it and maintain appropriately, it’s no biggie.
Ranger wrote:
[quote]It lives. Whoohoo. Mighty SpecE30 #6 is back.
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Not even a single “Congrats”? Dang. Hard crowd.
Ranger wrote:
[quote]Ranger wrote:
[quote]It lives. Whoohoo. Mighty SpecE30 #6 is back.
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Not even a single “Congrats”? Dang. Hard crowd.[/quote]
Here ya go, Clap Clap!
Ranger wrote:
[quote]Ranger wrote:
[quote]It lives. Whoohoo. Mighty SpecE30 #6 is back.
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Not even a single “Congrats”? Dang. Hard crowd.[/quote]
I will give you a congrats at the end of the RRR weekend when it is still running. 
A guy that works for a favorite local shop showed up at my door last night looking for an oil pan for his kid’s E30. So we go to the motor that failed at CMP last month to remove it’s oilpan. And we find that the oil pan is on only finger tight. I never touched the bottom end of that motor. I wish I had. I wish I’d a opened it up and put a crankscraper on. If I had it’d probably be “Thunderous #6”, not “Dead #6”.
I never touched that oilpan and every one of it’s oilpan bolts were on only finger tight. How 'bout that shit? Man, you just can’t trust anything. If you haven’t personally put locktite on a bolt and tightened it down, you can’t trust it.