Wanted! Rb20 Oil Filter Housing Modene Thingy

[anthonymcgrath]

hi guys

I've been working on my top mount conversion. At present I ditched the original oil filter housing as I wanted to tap a sender into the block but my housing blocks it off. I placed two sandwich plates on the block and the oil filter on that. The first plate was a greddy one and holds 2 oil temp senders and an oil pressure sender. The second is a mocal and holds my oil lines which are 3/4" UNF fittings with -8AN aeroquip hose. pics below of my process...

removed this original oil filter housing.. its too big and I wanted to reduce the amount of water lines beneath too...

offering up the two plates...

mocal 19 row oil cooler...

3/4" UNF fittings push on type...

the items in situ and oil lines connected...

my water line bypassing the now missing oil filter housing...

all was working well for a few weeks ..or so I thought. Basically I came out to the car in the garage and it had spilled its guts of oil all over the floor. I felt about and noticed that the oil filter was sopping underneath. It seemed to be leaking about a few places

I think whats happening is that the oil line are rather close to the engine mount. As the engine moves its acting against the lines which act like a breaker bar and effectively rotates the sandwich plates causing the oil to leak out. I think its compounded by the smallish oil lines. I've been told -10 is the way to go to lower pressure a touch which is quite high generally.

so my plan now is to lose one of the plates as I've been told 2 is asking for trouble. Fit an RB20 oil filter housing which is smaller and wont block the 12mm hole on the engine. I can then run the one plate off the oil filter housing for my lines and the 2 senders off that and tap an oil temp sender into the block. upside of this is the oil filter housing will keep the lines away from the engine mount too and the rb20 oil filter housing is held on by 4 bolts and a gasket not one screw on fitting so thats got to be better than what I currently have esp. seeing as the original never leaked previously in 2 years of driving.

I've been chasing one of these rb20 housings for a while but had no luck over here. I've seen this but its in nz and I cant get in touch as the site seems quite oriented to just selling to nz owners

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Car-parts-accessories/Nissan/Engines/auction-341510043.htm

so simple question is does anyone have one for an rb20 and are they willing to sell it cheap to a uk owner? I'll chuck some extra $ in for beers too

oh and if anyone has any suggestions on my oil cooler setup feel free to comment. Its really frazzled my brain this bit and I just want it sorting out so I can get it mapped... oh and btw this is my build...

so you can see I'm quite excited about getting it up n running properly lol (btw I have alot of you guys on here to thank for the advice shared whilst I put this little lot together so thankyou!)

ant

ps sorry for huge post! just wanna be clear what I'm doing.