Oil and Gforces hhmmmmm

[Biggamehit]

Sup yesterday i was talking to my sponsor and i told him that i happen to go through 2 KA motors in a year. I told him i practice drifting alot ( rain most of the time). There were a few time i over revvvved a bit while trying to learn my foot technique. He bought up a good point that i understood fully but never thought of.he said while the car is sideways for long periods of time the oil can shift to one side of the motor and simulate not having oil in the motor and creating high friction. I threw a rod both time by the way ( due to high reving and also High friction maybe ). To solve this problem i figur i can get a deeper oil pan and get a gforce oil pump which i found out is produced in the market

Has anyone heard of it and or have any comments about it.

ps check this link i pulled it from google a pretty revelent article is in thereOil and Gforce

[RobertsnewQ]

That's a fairly common problem - the g-forces pull oil away from the pickup and it sucks air instead of oil. CHanging the pump won't help much. What Will help is a custom oil pan with trap door baffles to keep oil near the pickup. Try Armando's oil pans:

http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Flats/1624/

[Biggamehit]

cool page ill ask them if they fab for 240;s

[unichi]

Isn't a dry sump another not so cheap solution for this? Does anyone make a dry sump kit for the KA?

[RobertsnewQ]

Dry sump = $2000 or so for pump, lines and custom pan/windage tray/oil tank

Custom pan = $300

You could also run an accusump.

[Bart]

Real nice dry sumps

http://www.olsonmotorsports.co....html

http://www.daileyengineering.com/main.htm

[Exar-Kun]

Get an oil pan with baffles in it, and some bearing with oil brooves in them and some good oil (synthetic), that should be adeuqate for anyone except someone running on a road coarse for extended periods.-CHet

[DjPantsSpecR]

baffeling is nice, but what if you redesign the pan to incorporate baffeling as well as a pivoting oil pick up. Baffeling to keep the oil in the front of the pan despite accelerating and deceleration and a swinging pick up to follow the oil as it shifts from the left to the right.

At the very least figure out an efficient pan design to incorporate a swinging oil pick up. This already exists, but it is not used nearly as much as it should, i just cant believe dry sump and even accusumps were pitched before this idea

[InsanityInc]

A swinging oil pickup seems like a really good idea, since it would obviously follow the oil.