Subject	Found my cause for low oil pressure
Posted by	bigsyke on June 05, 2013 at 9:34 PM
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Message	Bought car, 0-10psi at idle, no more than 30psi throughout RPM range. Dented pan, which I fixed. Oil pressure was better, but still would sometimes drop to extremely low pressures, and at the track got no higher than 60psi. Sometimes it would hit 5psi at idle --thus I thought my sender was bad. Nope, it was good. The oil pressure spring that bleeds off to the cooler was bad. Not sure if there is a thermostat inside there as well, but my oil cooler was getting hot shortly after I started the car. I blocked the Oil cooler return line with a 3/8ths NPT Ball valve. I can control the return rate for the track, and close it for the street. At 2500rpms, I'm at 60psi, hot --always. At redline I'm past 100psi. Also no more horrible oil burning fumes, turbos spool up quicker, and gas mileage has gone WAY up. Just a heads up, as I've seen enough youtube videos with people having sub-par oil pressure, or pressure doesn't increase that much with RPM
Follow Ups	Found my cause for low oil pressure - bigsyke 21:34:07 06/05/13 Re: Found my cause for low oil pressure - OverZealous (CT) 22:09:09 06/05/13 Appreciate you posting your findings man. Have been vexed by - Hydrus 23:41:37 06/05/13 Re: Appreciate you posting your findings man. Have been vexed by - bigsyke 00:12:41 06/06/13 Follow-up on previous post - OverZealous (CT) 06:08:32 06/06/13 Appreciate you posting your findings man. Have been vexed by - Hydrus 11:10:36 06/06/13
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