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Old 11-30-2002, 09:26 AM
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Hal, I have a Panoz road race car with 351 Winsor with a Caton multi trap door oil pan. Currently it also has two oil sensors, one sensors goes to a Auto Meter analog guage and the other to a Stack data acquistion system. I noticed on several occasions while racing, after installing the Stack system that the oil pressure would drop from 60lbs to 6-8 lbs just long enough to trigger the low oil pressure alarm on the Stack system. But the analog guage barely moved, I didn't think much about it until I burned a couple of rod bearings and stuck a connecting rod through the pan. I have installed now " Poor man's dry sump" the Accusump , problem solved. If you do any high speed work, long hard corners, I highly recommend, much cheaper than a rebuild. Thanks, db
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