LSA oil pump, yay or nay?
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LSA oil pump, yay or nay? Working on a build now using a b15 LSX 376 topped with an LSA blower. Not doing anything crazy with it, attempting to make 650whp on e85 with boost and maybe spray it with a 100 shot later down the road. Keeping the stock cam in there (I believe it's an ls7 cam). The car is mostly a street driven/daily driver but it also sees drag track use.
i haven't been able to confirm yet but I believe the engine comes with a production LSA oil pump. I'll be using an Improved Racing baffled F body pan. Do you guys see any reason why I shoudn't keep this pump? I'd probably void the warranty by changing it, but i doubt GM will honor a warranty once the motor sees boost anyway, so protecting my investment is more important to me.
still, if the pump will do the job I'd rather not change it.
i haven't been able to confirm yet but I believe the engine comes with a production LSA oil pump. I'll be using an Improved Racing baffled F body pan. Do you guys see any reason why I shoudn't keep this pump? I'd probably void the warranty by changing it, but i doubt GM will honor a warranty once the motor sees boost anyway, so protecting my investment is more important to me.
still, if the pump will do the job I'd rather not change it.
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Working on a build now using a b15 LSX 376 topped with an LSA blower. Not doing anything crazy with it, attempting to make 650whp on e85 with boost and maybe spray it with a 100 shot later down the road. Keeping the stock cam in there (I believe it's an ls7 cam). The car is mostly a street driven/daily driver but it also sees drag track use.
i haven't been able to confirm yet but I believe the engine comes with a production LSA oil pump. I'll be using an Improved Racing baffled F body pan. Do you guys see any reason why I shoudn't keep this pump? I'd probably void the warranty by changing it, but i doubt GM will honor a warranty once the motor sees boost anyway, so protecting my investment is more important to me.
still, if the pump will do the job I'd rather not change it.
i haven't been able to confirm yet but I believe the engine comes with a production LSA oil pump. I'll be using an Improved Racing baffled F body pan. Do you guys see any reason why I shoudn't keep this pump? I'd probably void the warranty by changing it, but i doubt GM will honor a warranty once the motor sees boost anyway, so protecting my investment is more important to me.
still, if the pump will do the job I'd rather not change it.
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Thanks, I'll be honest, I only found it mentioned that it used an LSA pump from one Chevy Hardcore article
https://www.chevyhardcore.com/tech-s...at-chevy-perf/
"With the crankshaft and camshaft in place, the roller timing chain setup is installed, after which the high-volume, wet-sump oil pump from the LSA production engine is installed on the crank snout."
Other than that, I have found no mention of any oil pump part number listed anywhere on Chevrolet's website or any summit/pace/jegs spec list I have seen. I even thought maybe it didn't include one, but I don't think GM would really warranty a motor with a pick-it-yourself oil pump. It kind of made sense to me they'd use an LSA pump, but I didn't think of the oil squirters, although a high volume pump would seem to make sense given the nature of these B15 motors. If that were the case, the only thing that would scare me is using a HV pump with a 5.5qt pan.
I'll see if I can get a more definitive answer from GM or Summit/Jegs/Scoggin Dickey on what pump PN is actually in there.
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