<VV> Oil pressure spring

[Bryan Blackwell]

Hi Peter,

My understanding is that the racers use the 60 pound spring because  
you need that to pump oil to a front mounted oil cooler and back.  40  
pounds is fine for an engine with any variety of the stock coolers or  
a rear mounted cooler.  It probably was a nice bit of insurance on  
initial startup, but for the rest of the engine's life I'd go back to  
a stock spring.

--Bryan

On Sep 26, 2008, at 11:22 AM, PETER INMAN wrote:

> Reading past posts on oils I have some thoughts concerning the use  
> of the oil press spring that increases the oil press to 60 lbs. My  
> freshly rebuilt 110 has this spring and with a mechanical guage my  
> oil pressure is 60 at idle and maybe a little higher with some RPM.  
> Is this to much pressure when used with some oils? My thoughts when  
> using this spring was that oil would reach the furthest point  
> easier and thus give more wear pertection. Am I correct or should I  
> reconcider and put the lower Pressure spring back in. After the  
> breakin period I plan to use a Sinthetic oil.