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Originally Posted by Element Tuning
Many of the aftermarket pans I'm seeing are not a good design for road racing as they are making the bottom of the pan flat which just give the oil more room to move away from the pickup. The pickup area should be "sumped."
The thread pitch of the oil galley for the mains is 18 x 1.5mm.
Just remember an oil accumulator like the "Accusump" will not increase your oil pressure which is the main issue (we did this with internal engine mods and the oil cooler). Now with NA the OEM oil pressure isn't a deal breaker so the oil accumulator is more about having some extra capacity and for the times the oil pickup may starve momentarily.
Warning: Your oil accumulator can hold 3+ quarts more than your standard oil capacity which means you have a problem when it pushes that into your motor. If you notice on my race car I'm running a 1 gallon breather/catch tank. Only severe oil starvation or high RPM pressure drop would cause it to push that much oil into the motor however.
If we were building this on a customer's car you need to design the entire system accordingly or your car could spill oil out a dinky and worthless catch can causing a fire  or sucking it into the intake. |
Currently I'm using a Crawford AOS. I'm uncertain where an additional oil catch - expansion tank is plumbed to contain the additional Accusump dispensed oil. I spoke with Canton about oil starvation prevention NA and a 2 QT unit was suggested. I thought to mount it as your image in post #101 shows attached to the struct brace. Would/could/should a "larger" catch can be inserted between the engine and the AOS when the 2QT is installed--Your comments in post #122 not withstanding?
Really appreciate all the work ET has put into the FA platform.
