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Shipping my Engine tomorrow to Ron at RS Motors to build me a 2.2. While its down I am reworking the Dry-sump, I ordered a Norris Design front cover to replace the factory modified unit. I was looking at the Magnus stuff but by using the Norris I can keep my pan as is and save $1200.00. Still debating ordering a Peterson Fluid primer remote mount, I know flyingscott has one on his build. I like the idea of easy priming before I would always take belt off and spin pump (10 minute job).
Getting close guys. Here are some updates install pics. Curious how/where people have run the lines from the trunk all way to front. I think we have agreed to run thrugh trunk firewall, down through floorboard behind passenger seat, under car and up into engine bay through passenger fender well.
Remote primer front right corner. Peterson tank, Peterson breather, external fuel pumps, and battery in trunk.
It was brought to our attention last night we shouldn’t use the standard paper filter type of oil filter, rather a metal screen filter. We are also using the inline metal canister filter used with the Magnus.
Still recommend a catch can set up with a dry sump? Any feedback on either of these points?
we've been running a catch can with our drysump, but there has been literally zero oil in it from this past season. i've seen a lot of people run their breather lines from the valve cover to their breather tank, but that's a lot of AN line and i'm not fully convinced it's necessary.
we use standard style filters and were never told any diff.
We occasionally get build up in our catch can. but we r also on e85.
We have the rocker cover breathing back to the tank then tank to breather can. You need to make sure the breather lines are above the tank level. we ran ours up the a pillar behind the rollcage but its a racecar so a bit easier to do that than a street car.
Id recommend running a breather can but really u need to contact whoever supplied u the drysump kit and ask them for their recommendation
Started car! But pump no pump pressure on oil gauge
Started car! However, two confirmed problems.
* no pressure registering on oil pressue gauge. We can get random 1-20psi on gauge sometimes with spinning pump with drill. We did adjust the set screw on pump with no results.
* looking down into Peterson oil tank while spinning pump with drill, we don't see return oil line feeding oil back into tank. Big slow dome bubbles form at bottom and oil in tank eventually rises to the top. Is this normal? We thought it would suck oil down and the return line into tank would be flowing...but it remains empty.
After checking all the lines, it's a set back. Oh yah, and so was the water pump. Last step before start was adding water to radiator. We had water start leaking everywhere from water pump. This fix took all day with last minute runs to parts stores before closing on a holiday weekend. The fix was to use a 4g64 gasket on the block side and a evo gasket on the pump side. Who knew? "Everyone but us apparently." LOL! This is when I dream of being rich enough to send all this work out to shop wondering what it would be like to afford an extra $10,000 labor bill. 4
Not sure what to do at this point. It's almost like we have to just trust ourselves and press start and see what happens. I struggle with this. :-(
Started car! However, two confirmed problems.
* no pressure registering on oil pressue gauge. We can get random 1-20psi on gauge sometimes with spinning pump with drill. We did adjust the set screw on pump with no results.
* looking down into Peterson oil tank while spinning pump with drill, we don't see return oil line feeding oil back into tank. Big slow dome bubbles form at bottom and oil in tank eventually rises to the top. Is this normal? We thought it would suck oil down and the return line into tank would be flowing...but it remains empty.
After checking all the lines, it's a set back. Oh yah, and so was the water pump. Last step before start was adding water to radiator. We had water start leaking everywhere from water pump. This fix took all day with last minute runs to parts stores before closing on a holiday weekend. The fix was to use a 4g64 gasket on the block side and a evo gasket on the pump side. Who knew? "Everyone but us apparently." LOL! This is when I dream of being rich enough to send all this work out to shop wondering what it would be like to afford an extra $10,000 labor bill. 4
Not sure what to do at this point. It's almost like we have to just trust ourselves and press start and see what happens. I struggle with this. :-(
This might be a dumb question, but does it need to be primed? Is it a self priming pump?
Not a dumb question at all. We put all 11 quarts in the Peterson tank then primed the pump directly using a drill thinking that would prime the lines. Since that hasn’t worked, we are going to fill the lines with oil, inlcluding the pan and the tank....and try again. Thanks for the tip!
Two weeks into trying to diagnose this problem. We can’t find why we are getting pressure at first, then slowly losing pressure down to ZERO in about 30 seconds. After checking the lines so many times, and confirming plumbing is correct, we are nearly out of options. When you are this stuck, it’s almost easier to change hobbies and sell it all. Anyone have any thoughts? What possibly could we have missed? We have videos of everything.....mechanical gauge, Oil in Peterson tank, etc....
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Mar 22, 2018, 07:23 PM
