Raj Virdee
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 posted on 20/10/02 at 01:17 PM |
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Dry Sump on a Blade ?
Whats your opinion
To dry or not to dry ?
If so, how?
Comments appreciated
Thanks
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Stu16v
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| posted on 20/10/02 at 06:36 PM |
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Unless you are going to spend all of your time on the race track with very sticky tyres then no, you dont need to dry sump a Blade engine. Just get a
baffle plate (Stuart Taylor sell 'em amongst others) and run with the oil level a little higher.
Dont just build it.....make it!
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Jasper
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| posted on 20/10/02 at 06:43 PM |
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Or make your own baffle plate, take the sump off, get a piece of thin aircraft grade ali, cut the appropriate holes in it, trim around the edge and
sandwich between two sump gaskets, pennies....
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Jon Ison
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| posted on 20/10/02 at 06:48 PM |
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or don't fit a sump plate, don't overfill it (clutch slip city).....i aint done either, she as done some very hard milage with no problems.......dry
sump waste a time on a blade.........not one of the RGB boys run a dry sump (on blade's)......
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Raj Virdee
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| posted on 20/10/02 at 08:05 PM |
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Cheers Guys for that
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ChrisGamlin
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| posted on 21/10/02 at 12:50 PM |
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Dry sump just adds complication, more to go wrong and something else to spring a potentially damaging oil leak form. A working wet sump is better than
a working dry sump, as somebody pointed out to me!
I've got a chopped down sump with baffling and a horizontal baffle plate which has so far been fine, so sign of oil surge and some fairly serious
abuse, and thats as much if not more than most of the 'blade RGB boys use.
It makes me chuckle on the James Whiting website how they try to justify dry sumping the engine for the Caterham blade, the only reason I can see they
do it is so they can get it under the bonnet!
Chris
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