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Dry sump and lubrication og the cam/lifters
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 10:14 am
by fastback
can this be an issue?
i asume "lube-a-lobe" style lifters with lube hole in the lifter's surface are recomended for this application?
Re: Dry sump and lubrication og the cam/lifters
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 11:14 am
by Marc
I ran dry-sump on circletrack race motors for years without a single cam/lifter failure (with conventional lifters). Must be an ample supply of lubrication thrown off the crank...
The running oil level in a wet-sump engine is well below the cam anyway.
Re: Dry sump and lubrication og the cam/lifters
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 11:35 am
by fastback
yeah lot's of people run drysump without any issues.
have'nt checked where the oil level lines up in the WBX engines, but thought maybe the lobes dipp'ed into the oil
Re: Dry sump and lubrication og the cam/lifters
Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 2:18 pm
by fastback
took a quick look at it tonight and the oil level seem's to reach pretty high accordign to the dipstick.
Re: Dry sump and lubrication og the cam/lifters
Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:21 pm
by fusername
when its running hte level drops, BUt that is still pretty high, a bit more than i thought.