Regarding the suggestion for low oil pressure in turns; I
have seen several vintage racers set up with the accusump to
keep oil pressure up. Apparently it lets you get by with a
quart less oil, so you get the advantages of a dry sump
system (no frothing and parasitic losses due to the crank
spinning in the oil) with much less cost and complexity. The
address is:
Canton Racing Products
9 Tipping Drive
Branford, CT
06405
(203)481-8324
.. of course, it won't fix a bad guage or sender... and, I used
the sudden drop in oil pressure under hard braking to let me
know that enough had leaked out to add 2 quarts... probably
not the best procedure, but I figured that a few seconds of
low oil pressure at idle wouldn't do much damage.. as long as
you _always_ added the oil right away.
- jack
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