drifting = ticking noise in motor? ?!?!?!?!? help

[mxkilla450]

i have a 91 nissan 240sx with a sr in it pretty much stock

i was doing doughnuts around this little island thing in a parking lot [only did it to the left] and then after i stopped it started ticking.my friend told me that my oil was to thin and that sometimes while drifting the oil shifts to one side of the motor .[not sure if its true or not] if you guys have ever heard of this could you give me some pointers on how to stop it?

[BrianHarte]

He means all the oil was at one side, thus making the oil pickup not pick anything up....

[AZ89two4Tsx]

Yes that can happen. It's called latteral g's.

I dunno if you've ever seen this but on a show called ultimtate factories (nat geo I think) they showed the how a vette z06's oil system worked. It has an oil circulation system (no oil pan) so exactly what you're talking about doesn't happen. It's pretty cool. They even demonstrated how g forces force the oil to one side of a pan during hard cornering. The same would apply to drifting.

[conrad_s13.5]

Yes that can happen. It's called latteral g's.

I dunno if you've ever seen this but on a show called ultimtate factories (nat geo I think) they showed the how a vette z06's oil system worked. It has an oil circulation system (no oil pan) so exactly what you're talking about doesn't happen. It's pretty cool. They even demonstrated how g forces force the oil to one side of a pan during hard cornering. The same would apply to drifting.

no joke,... could just be an exhaust leak,... happen to me,.. thought i had a bad lifter.

check it and hope for the best,....lol