Hey guys my car just had the motor built when I bought it. The guy had a milan high pressure oil pump put in it. It had 75 psi of oil pressure warm at about 2800 rpms going down the highway. I thought after I got done putting some miles on it it would come down. It still only has about 700 or 800 miles on it but it is still holding that much oil pressure and I was going to see what yall thought about it.

Thanks

 

would u rather have 75 or 20? iv never seen a car with 75lbs.. but i dont think thats a bad thing, your gauge might be faulty

 

mine stay around 80 cold and 65 or so driving... never ever drops below 50+

 

i think 75 is ok at 2800 rpms....

 

what is the easiet way to find out if your gauge is faulty ?

 

Mechanical oil pressure guage will do the trick. 60psi here cold and 50-55 warm using a mech OP guage in addition to the stk unit.

 

yup that seems a lil high but its better than being too low. Seems that the gauges are off on many cars. According to my gauge i've had 0 oil pressure for the passed 2k miles

 

the oil pressure guage in my truck (silverado 350) said 0psi and the guage dummy light came on so i thought it was just the guage. went a couple thousand miles... then POP went the engine... more specifically the 1 and 2 connecting rods.. haha.. lesson learned..

my camaro oil pressure runs pretty low once it warms up. id love it to run that high..

 

mine is making 80 at 3000 rpms warm

 

After recently installing a Melling 10 HV oil pump on my 151k engine after a blown head gasket, I now have just under 80 at cold idle and 35 to 50 at hot idle.

 

Ok well I was just wanting to check to make sure it wasn't going to rob all the oil from the bottom end. Thanks for the info guys.

 

sound once again how do you check if the gauge is bad and where is the sending unit on the LT1s ?

 

20psi hot idle

40psi hot from 1500-6400rpm

60psi cold idle

 

before mine got to starving from oil from the oil pump locking up after 15 miles of driving i held 70lbs easy. still waiting to get my motor back again.

 

my car lost oil pressure at 115 MPH at the track im trying to get feed back on it and maybe some things to look at. any help ?