oil pressure LOST, and then 24 hours later BACK

[Pete Munroe]

Dave,

Not impossible too low on oil, but it should have been at 8 qts. That said, in the past I have added as much as another 2 qts, it still does it...infrequent and unstructured sessions on the track aren't much help for testing and having good input. The problem has been present since first time on track and the wear has been accumulating for years?

Will go check quart by quart as I add oil, and verify my marks for 6-7-8 are accurate. Would like to know the max oil I could put in the pan and not overfill it and get into the spinning crank

Removing the dam on the side of the pan may have compromised it more than I would have thought. Lots of people have run the pan with no problems, I certainly do not drive hard enough to create any problems.

The lower end support will probably go, no need to hold the lower end together if you are at a low, ~ 400 hp output? and, aren't starving bearings for oil.

Will add back the dam. AVIAD is close enough to drive up and either buy or make a pattern of the piece I cut out.

Will be adding a ACCU-SUMP. Hate to use it as a band-aide for a system that has something inherently wrong, but this is too much of a pain to deal with again and trash a perfectly sound engine with premature bearing wear.

Pete