FX Holden Race Car Project

[Holden202T]

yeah but if that was the case wouldn't you remove the oil pump all together and run a belt driven oil pump ?

I mean you can use the oil pump mod to suck from a dry sump tank, but then you need the scavenge part of it to get it all back in there ? I would also expect if you were to do it that way you'd tap a few fittings into the block to allow priority oiling to where you wanted it which wouldn't work with the standard oil pump ?

I guess though if you had a scavenge pump draining the sump you could then have a dry sump and just using the normal 202 oiling!

stop putting ideas in my head lol!

[Charlescrown]

When I saw the side plate my first thoughts were dry sump and like you said fit a scavenge pump to the sump pickup to a tank then to the side plate. I guess the length of hoses, location of the tank etc all needs to be considered to work properly. I believe the HSV with the 427 runs a dry sump setup but don't quote me on that one.

[v6bucket]

I put a plug in to remove any chance of a suction leak & a dead end gallery.

[Holden202T]

yeah I guess if it was going to be a circuit car it would be worth doing dry sump, but for 400mtrs it will be overkill

[Holden202T]

Massive update this week!

I have hose lol!

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I also got another delivery of some more steam pipe so I can hopefully make somre more progress on the manifold ...

[firebug]

That'll look pretty good against the gold engine block...

[Holden202T]

well................ I'm not sure I want a gold block with an alloy head ..... thinking I might go black this time, or maybe a dark blue of some sort ....

nah think its going to have to be black to match the wastegate/bov/fuel regulator.

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[Holden202T]

From a weekend of barely opening the shed door, to a weekend where I barely left the shed!

Got most of the turbo manifold worked out and tacked together .... don't mind the red tape, its just holding the two pipes in place, I need them removed to make a hole in the pipe before re-connecting permanently.

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turbo is about 1.5 inches away from the guard at the closest point, and its a fair bit further away from the inlet manifold now, as well as the dump pipe will run out of the inner guard well away from anything!

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main thing left to work out now is the location of the wastegate, but that wont happen till it arrives in the mail - but I have plenty of welding to finish off in the mean time anyways!

now all that is mounted I've been able to work out what I need for the last of the coolant and oil pipes etc, so I have ordered the last bits I will hopefully need for them.

[firebug]

When is next shed night?

[Holden202T]

tonight actually if your bored ?