Truck oil pan
10-27-2007, 10:24 AM
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Drag racers typically use 1 qt less (or more) in their pans than the ratings. What kills HP is oil splashing back up into the crank when it throws it.
Nothing worng with running it a quart low if you have enough traps doors and baffles to keep the oil where it belongs; not only during acceleration, but decelleration as well. There's just as much force one way as there is the other.
Nothing worng with running it a quart low if you have enough traps doors and baffles to keep the oil where it belongs; not only during acceleration, but decelleration as well. There's just as much force one way as there is the other.
10-27-2007, 02:38 PM
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GM engines typically have plenty of oil at the top end, so everything I have read in the last 10-15 years indicates that hi volume pumps are not really necessary. IF you have the sump capacity, and it puts your mind at ease, you can run a HV pump, but 95+% of engines are never going to need one.
