southerncross
10-20-2008, 07:55 PM
a friend and i are building an autocross/track day car from a $500 running single cam 90 240 we just bought off a friend. the whole idea of this car is inexpensive fun, but not at the cost of the motor (although we already bought 3 spares longblocks and have 3 heads). the plan is to boost the car to about 200whp a little further down the road, but for now, we need this thing to be track day reliable for the beat down. for reference its the original motor with 94k on the clock. at this point im just wanting to get the suspension and brakes on and sort the chassis out, so im not trying to increase power, just reliability.
we already bought an oil pressure gauge (autometer electric) and were thinking it either needed an oil cooler or a baffled pan to keep the motor slick under corner loads, or maybe even both. ive had 5 s13 240s previously, and all had the same problem with oil starvation under sustained corner loads. does anyone have any experience with this in a single cam 240? i know a lot off scca racers that use the KAE do have baffled large sump oil pans, but i dont necessarily want that if i dont need it. . . and the price is kind of nuts on some of em too.
we already bought an oil pressure gauge (autometer electric) and were thinking it either needed an oil cooler or a baffled pan to keep the motor slick under corner loads, or maybe even both. ive had 5 s13 240s previously, and all had the same problem with oil starvation under sustained corner loads. does anyone have any experience with this in a single cam 240? i know a lot off scca racers that use the KAE do have baffled large sump oil pans, but i dont necessarily want that if i dont need it. . . and the price is kind of nuts on some of em too.