entropy
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posted April 20, 2003 08:27 AM
oil pressure: ever wonder?
me too, so I mounted a mechanical Stewart Warner 2", 0-100psi oil pressure guage.
Pretty easy install with a little help from Swagelok fittings. I used the plug on the rh side of the motor beneath the ign timing cover. Warning: that plug has some green shit on the threads which took heat and a breaker bar...
Just got back my new motor and its showing 38psi @ 3500rpm, 50psi at 4000. Havent't done any sustained rpm higher yet...
The NEXT time i turn my bearings into copper colored potatoe chips, I wanna know what the oil presure was doing. 
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zxlnt
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posted April 20, 2003 08:48 AM
Pics man pics where are the pictures!!!!!!!
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your car is slow
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posted April 20, 2003 01:14 PM
wow....thats pretty cool. Always wanted to do that...along with fuel pressure 
Oil pressure gauges are a dime a dozen on ebay.
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entropy
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posted April 20, 2003 01:42 PM
zxlnt - i'll get some pix this week.
ycis
Yep, lenty o' oil pressure guages, but I just had to have a mechanical, 0-100, white face, 270 degree scale, yadda-yadda-yadda. Ended up spending 35-ish bux + the special fitting to mate with the case.
I doubt if anyone really needs it, but it is fun
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kcadby
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posted April 20, 2003 05:21 PM
 Edited By: kcadby on 20 Apr 2003 18:23
First time the 1361 was started...I had a Snap-on guage on it...ran it on the dyno that way also...
I always run a guage (in the shop) on the motors I build 
I WILL have a fuel pressure guage on John's and the 1317 when they are on the dyno with NO2...
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