Cascade Crew

aaron_sK · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 4:03 pm Post subject:

Ahh... I see the problem. I assumed that the oil was run through side tanks on the rad line a tranny cooler, not running coolant through the oil pump.

Edit: Tony, there was a lot of stuff done to the car by previous owners. Most of it was done pretty well. I think they were planning on a dedicated drag car, seeing as it has a 3.73 BW swapped in, and a built TH700-R4.

Xophertony · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 4:28 pm Post subject:

should i pull the "cooler" off my engine? i don't like the idea of my oil being restricted. Shocked

plus then i could run the bigger filter and not worry about clearence around my headers. or is that just a problem with V6s with headers?

chevymad · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 4:44 pm Post subject:

If you arent changing motors or something, I wouldnt remove the oil cooler just cause. The only reason we didnt put Mike's back on was because it was clear full of metal debris from when the L98 gave up. There's no way to completely clean that stuff out, so if we'd used it some of the metal would have ended up in the new engine. The cost of a new oil cooler wasnt worth the benefit.

aaron_sK · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 4:51 pm Post subject:

How does a cooler restrict filter size anyway? It's hard to tell without mine being all there, but it looks like the pipes would come off the front side, and swing out of the way.

chevymad · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 4:52 pm Post subject:

The cooler adds a few inches to the length. It can make the filter hang lower then the oil pan sump.

aaron_sK · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 5:07 pm Post subject:

Is the sump going to be at the very bottom of the pan? Right now the filter I have on it is equal to the bottom of the oil pan.

Xophertony · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 5:09 pm Post subject:

are you not suposed to have your filter lower then your pan?

Twilightoptics · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 5:14 pm Post subject:

Xophertony · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 6:19 pm Post subject:

both of our exhausts hange alot lower then our oil filters Very Happy

that is a damn good reason though. Cool

aaron_sK · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 6:53 pm Post subject:

Yeah, anything tall enough to take out that filter would also take out the Y-pipe and probably a good chunk of the oil pan. However I'm still worried about it being lower than the sump, which I didn't even think of when I installed it.

Twilightoptics · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 8:50 pm Post subject:

My pipe doesn't hang down much lower than my oil pan. And my oil pan is dented.

alloy · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 9:15 pm Post subject:

I've been running the long 2 quart filter for several years now and have hit my y-pipe several times but no dents on the filter at all.

I'd also suggest that anyone changing the oil on our type of cars with a vertically mounted filter pre-fill the filter completely with new oil. Especially if running the 2 quart unit like I am. 2 quarts is a lot of oil to pump before the engine gets any oil after a filter change.

iansane · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 9:34 pm Post subject:

aaron_sK · Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 8:04 am Post subject:

Kage87Z · Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 7:55 pm Post subject:

On my stroker, I have a high pressure, high volume oil pump. It's typically pegged ALL the time.

Have you changed the sending unit? I personally, wouldn't worry about it. But then, I didn't think gold was going back up to 700 an ounce, either.

aaron_sK · Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 9:16 pm Post subject:

Nah, I'm not gonna bother with it. I know those guages are typically crap, but as long as it's not overly high or low, screw it. Cold oil level is dead on with the larger filter, so I'm happy with it till something else breaks.

Now I need to find out what's sucking down all the gas. Mileage is actually still dropping, down to around 10 mpg.

Kage87Z · Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 11:14 pm Post subject:

As for how good oil filters are:

http://minimopar.knizefamily.net/oilfilters.html

aaron_sK · Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 5:28 am Post subject:

lol.... Google "oil filter study" and you'll end up with several hundred of those. That's the most refferenced/mirrored one though.

Twilightoptics · Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 3:29 pm Post subject:

www.bobistheoilguy.com courtesy of Alloy