[s-cars] RE: AAN Drysump

[Trevor Frank]

Talked to the guy's at Sierra Motorsports a few years ago...he was very concerned about me getting a spare and replacing the wet sump pump or going with a dry sump.  Honestly I think that this was because his experience was all with rally cars, he said that they did have starvation issues and would blow the pumps a lot as well as spinning bearings.  I believe that since we don't tend to jump our cars all that much or get them on two wheels...hmmm actually Scott the dry sump might be for you. :)

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From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of QSHIPQ at aol.com
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 12:20 PM
To: Theodore Chen; mlped at qwest.net; 'TODD KRAMER'; s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: RE: [s-cars] RE: AAN Drysump

That would be the absolute worst place to look for more ponies, in fact I can't think of a worse place to throw dollars.  Knife edge the crank, get accusump wet sump resevoir, buy a dedicated track car.  All money better spent. 

There is a crank scraper found on all S cars already, and a pretty decent wet sump arrangement.  I haven't seen the symptom (spun rod and crank bearings) posted to even discuss the accusump resevoir, less the dry sump arrangement.

my .02

SJ
In a message dated 2/28/2005 1:16:03 PM Eastern Standard Time, Theodore Chen <tedebearp at yahoo.com> writes:

>well, maybe they're looking for a few more hp by keeping the oil away
>from a spinning crank, but the money is better spent elsewhere (on a
>dollar per horsepower basis).  do these engines have windage trays and
>crank scrapers?
>
>-teddy

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