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Originally Posted by Jawnathin
Question about the oil starvation. I'm curious why would this be driver error? My understanding was that under high G loads, the oil would slosh away from the oil pick up and the motor would starve and the fix for that was to install some baffle or windage tray to reduce/prevent the sloshing and keep the oil near the pump. This is what my S2000s friends have said.
Anyway, I think the point was made. Pushing a car on the track will expose weaknesses that won't occur in a normal street car. A car that is regularly tracked will see additional wear, tear, and stress even on what we'd consider to be non-wear items. I just disagreed with whoever it was, that singled out the 86 twins as requiring more maintenance, when that is the norm for almost all cars.
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S2000's don't have oil starve issues unless you're in a S2000 with slicks and HUGE aero. Chances are your friends lost motors because they didn't watch their oil levels, if that's what they're saying. S2000's need a catch can, and will lose oil through the PCV when you go through a long left sweeper followed by a right. Easy fix is to drill holes in the head cover baffle by the pcv exits.