[Tigers] Tigers Digest, Vol 4, Issue 11 (oil pump)

[Tony McNulty]

and his race results are .... ?????






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David T Johnson" <djoh797014 at yahoo.com>
To: <tigers at autox.team.net>; "Thomas Witt" <atwittsend at verizon.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Tigers Digest, Vol 4, Issue 11 (oil pump)


> Just the other day at the Indy Car Show, they had a vendor
> selling a product that coats the inside of the engine and you
> can it run without any oil what so ever.  He had a SBC
> running with the oil pan completely off. He even drove it
> around.
>
> No oil, No problem.
>
> His next product is a 299 mpg carburator that Detroit and the
> oil companies ahve been hiding.
>
> Dave -  go Colts
>
> --- On Wed, 1/13/10, Thomas Witt <atwittsend at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>
> From: Thomas Witt <atwittsend at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [Tigers] Tigers Digest, Vol 4, Issue 11 (oil pump)
> To: tigers at autox.team.net
> Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 8:50 PM
>
>
> Interesting discussion.   Wouldn't volume increases be limited to the 
> passage
> diameters? And then by the amount of leakage at bearings, lifters rockers
> etc.. Or is it that the leakage points exceed the capacity of the oil
> passage?  Frankly I don't know.
>
> It seems if  you have any oil pressure at all the oil passages must be 
> full
> and then only pressure would increase volume. What I'm trying to get at is 
> it
> seems volume and pressure have to go hand in hand and ultimately aren't
> independent of each other.  But, I guess (excluding the relief valve 
> setting)
> a higher volume pump would ultimately have more potential pressure 
> capability
> also.
>
> My mental reasoning is starting to seem like the gears in the oil pump.
> Regardless of rotation they keep meet up at the same point.
>
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