Dry Sump Conversion

[johan.p.g]

hi all

was wandering if any1 could explane what is involved in converting an rb to dry sump i was considering it but id want 2 du all the work myself

[123456]

A huge amount, is it a track car or something? They relocate all the oil in your sump to another canister.. normally drop the engine down a bit to when they're doing it to drop the weight distribution a bit more. Looking at at least $5k, and will only notice the difference on a track,

[johan.p.g]

ok its not a track car i just got board and thought it would be an interesting project 2 uptake

where du u inject the oil back into the enjine?

[dontfeelcold]

I might also interested in doing a dry sump setup myself. But from the searching I have done on this forum you should err to the side of caution unless you don't care if you munch an engine. There seems to be more to it than just slapping a external pump on.

[GeeTR]

Its been covered a few times. Theres a fellow on here who set one up on his BNR32 recently, if he cares to raise his hand

Multi stage pump, new sump, a reservoir with heater, and a butt load of speedflow fittings and lines. Its very popular on V8's. Check companies like Moroso and the likes in the US.

- M

[123456]

Latest autosalon has a tech section _heh_ regarding how they work what they do, etc, check it out

[MR331307]

Latest autosalon has a tech section _heh_ regarding how they work what they do, etc, check it out

When you buy a kit

It comes with instructions

[r33_racer]

peterson ftw!

If your mechanically minded...its relatively easy to do...its really just knowing or getting to know the little niggly bits to best suit an rb setup.

I can tell you...speedflow fittings and hose adds up to the same as the pump, tank, filters and bracketry....fricken expensive. When you start talking -16 fittings and hose......FARK!

[dontfeelcold]

are speed flow fittings and braided hose absolutely necessary? Couldn't you use high pressure hose with some heavy duty connections like powersteering uses? (just asking)

Edited January 18, 2007 by dontfeelcold

[r33_racer]

the pumps and tanks were designed to be used with speedflow fittings or something similar. If you wanted to change all the fittings on the pump and tanks over to another form then yeh you could, but i dont know how much you would save there having not done it before. We looked at using ryco steel fittings instead of the speedflow...but they are just too big and bulky and wouldnt fit especially at a -16 size. The speedflow worked just nice.

When weve fully finished and its all up and running ill start a thread outlining what we did, so there is some information available for others who are intending to do their own dry sump setup on an RB. Ours is on an rb30det fyi.

[dontfeelcold]

appreciatted

[N I B]

We are doing a pre season refresh on the Wholagan GTR so ill try to remember to take the camera to work and get some picks.

The sump was the toughest part because of the Diff and the cost got crazy for all the parts.No easy way of keeping Aircon so its a track setup.

We feed the oil back in the front of the engine as per the factory oil pump and use a bare nissan pump for the crank seal but cut the top of the pump of and welded the hole over and tapped a large speedflow fitting to the oil feed in the block.Its just as easy to pump the oil back to the oil filter boss but we already had a good cooler filter setup so it was easy to go the way we did.The engine is sealed up and the breathing for the engine is in the boot mounted tank.We used most parts 2nd hand from HRT but still spent close to 10k but oil has stopped being a problem in the years its been fitted,the engine is down for a refresh but looks like its been no more than run in,Little things like adjustable oil pressure and being able to drive the pump to prime the engine at rebuilds and oil changes is nice. Its easy to but ex touring car parts so look around but trust me,it costs much more than you will expect with just the hoses costing more than some ppl think the whole job will cost, but still less than one lost engine due to oil problems.

[dontfeelcold]

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