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| RE: PSE and oil system mods |
| By Kevin66 - 07/12/2002 6:51:11 AM; IP 207.102.191.60 |
| The only PSE setup I ever saw, may have been modified. It took its oil feed from the filter housing, and ran it through braided steel lines.
These threaded onto special cross-bolts in the main bearing caps. The bolts had hollow centers, to pipe the oil into the caps, which had also been drilled to carry the oil on in to the fully grooved bearings.
Because it represents the last stage of development, the 'pinnacle' if you will of FE factory hardware, people are enamoured with the side oiler blocks. This is fine, except that it drives prices through the roof, and ignores thousands of winning engines built before that idea came along.
Unless your center oiler is seeing 'severe' duty, it's not that likely it needs such extensive modifications. Ford's real interest in the side oiler emerged from things like the long Nascar races, and the GT-40/LeMans projects, where engines were run for hours on end at or near wide-open throttle.
Your best means of ensuring suitable oiling, is to have made the appropriate internal modifications to the oil passages in the block and filter housing, such as enlargening, aligning and blending where needed.
You should also ensure that oil flow to the heads is controlled via suitable restrictors, and that any passages to the lifter galleys are either blocked, or never reamed in the first place.
A pan holding seven to nine quarts is recommend, along with a large capacity pickup tube and HV/HP pump. Ensure that baffling in the pan keeps the oil where the pickup can find it. Use a windage tray to control aeration, and a scraper is a good idea too.
After having done all that, it won't be the oiling system that's the cause of any engine failure! |
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