[Land-speed] Dry Sump Oil Pan Question

Bryan Savage b.a.savage at cal.net
Mon Nov 18 18:57:48 MST 2013


Use this as a Mozilla search Larry:
" dry sump oil pan road race "

A Bonneville car can have left and right cornering forces, not just left 
cornering force only (circle track).
A road race pan is what should be used at Bonneville.

Bryan


On 11/18/2013 11:01 AM, Larry Mayfield wrote:
> I am sitting here with a bit of time on my hands waiting for parts for 
> my Sunbeam Tiger. So I though I would surf around..Was looking at dry 
> sump oil pans on eBay and I see that virtually all are for circle 
> track use. So I asks myself, is there a difference between a pan for 
> circle and one used exclusively for straight line use. Any body know 
> of any specific only to straight line use? Would that make a 
> difference? If there is no difference, why are all stipulated (maybe) 
> for circle track?  If there is a difference, what would that 
> difference be?
>
>  larry


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