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Post by friendlyfire on Feb 17, 2009 18:05:16 GMT 12
cheers for the info, i will be getting murray at webbers to upgrade my oil pump, pickup to give me better oil pressure, also remember im the one who has the parts you usto own that you got off andrew shrimtons rally car, so im not going to change any of the parts apart from cleaning them up and new seals, rings, ect. because theyre proven to work well together( i hope they did work well together? lol) also what are you going to do with your starter motor the original one sucks ass
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Post by gordo on Feb 17, 2009 19:39:01 GMT 12
Pretty sure some of the 2.3 bearing sets were half grooved for exactly that reason - or I may be thinking of other engines ...  Grooved in the con' rod big end cap and engine main's in the block, solid in con' rod body and engine main caps. It's been around for a long time as it works. In some extreme applications, they'll even use specially sized bearings with the 'solid' being a tighter clearance for load strength and the grooved larger clearance for increased oil flow for cooling. Got to be really serious for that, though! About the only time I had oil pressure problems was when the engine machinist wallies 'polished' the crank to the point where it had 4+ thou clearance. It was picked up on my pre build check but they were positive it wouldn't be a problem - they were wrong! Re the starter, FF, with the Beddies, we'd even run very heavy cables to power the starter and for engine-battery grounds - didn't help that much. Making sure the bearings are well greased/oiled and the commutator and brushes are clean did help a little. You could go to 24V starting if it's a real problem or modify a starter from another vehicle - IIRC, this was quite commonly done for rally cars but damned if I can recall what was used. |
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Post by bulldog on Feb 17, 2009 22:20:34 GMT 12
I'm actually not sure what it's running. It starts a treat tho. oh and that av gas smell  Let me know if you run into problems as I have 5 oil pumps all ranging from brand new to second hand. if you got all my old bits I seem to remember there being 3 odd oil pumps in there too. |
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Let me know if you run into problems as I have 5 oil pumps all ranging from brand new to second hand. if you got all my old bits I seem to remember there being 3 odd oil pumps in there too.