well iv got a 1998 camaro ls1 m6 car. the car has a cam and a few other bolt ons. i took the car out for a drive tonight and i noticed the oil pressure was around 20 psi at idle and jumping a little bit. the car normaly runs around 40 at idle so can any one tell me was wrong. im guessing oil pump failure

 

Being that it is a 98 it is and it just started out of nowhere that is entirely possible... Check with a manual gauge and go from there IMO..

 

Did you check the oil level?

 

yeah oild level seemed fine whats the best pump to buy when being on a budget and with no mods

 

Check the oil pressure with a gauge. How many miles on it? 20 psi is acceptable and with in specs. If you have good pressure with a manual Gauge then change your oil switch.

 

If you replace the pump I'll recomend a melling pump

 

the car just hit 61k and whats the quickest way to put a gauge on it

 

when i first bought my car it would idle at 35-40psi hot all the time, then one day it just dropped to 20psi, i immediately changed the oil and found a fram filter on there. i cut the filter open (as i always do on my oil changes) and found the paper POS filter to be collapsed and folded all up inside. got the car started back up with Mobile 1 (this was about 5-6 years ago when they were still good) and a new filter, and the psi was back up to 40psi hot idle

 

see i fired up today and drove it to work and the oil pressure was fine and it never droped. now im pretty mind fucked but will do a oil change with a k&n filter