KB58 wrote:
I run a dry sump on my turbo Honda K24. There's enough blowby that at idle at a light, when the wind is right it looks like I have either oil leaking onto the exhaust, or maybe an electrical short... No one's yelled at me that the car's on fire but I suppose it'll happen eventually. Somewhat related, cost aside, a dry sump is the best think you can do for an engine in a hard cornering Locost, but yeah, the cost is substantial.
I had someone argue with me that the dry sump would cost more than his engine, using that reasoning to not install it. So he goes to a trackday event, using the gas to get there, pays the $$$ entry fee, get's a hotel room, and food, and blows up his engine due to oil starvation. Okay, no problem, so he installs another identical engine. What can logically be expected to happen every time he goes to a trackday event? How many ruined events does it take to pay for the dry sump, or to completely lose interest in the car?
I'll sit down now.
There is another option that has been adopted by ferrari and bmw among others. Besides a retrofit from a bmw, one can make an accumulator system for about $200 including automatic controls. Off the shelf kits are about $500 now
. I will be adding trap doors to my pan in the spit. If I upgrade to one of the newer engines that all have aluminum pans, it will get a diy accumulator.
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