Anyone having oil starvation issues?
 

Wondering if anyone is seeing oil starvation issues during high G cornering? When and if my car ever runs again it'll probably be on a nitto 555RII or other similar streetable R comp for the road course and I don't want to burn up a motor. Anyone have any insight? I'm talking about VQ35s here, not sure if the oil pan/pickup is the same with VE/VG cars or not.

Years ago I was driving around a parking lot doing right handed circles like an idiot in my '98. I did notice that the low oil light would come on briefly at the peak of cornering. I think the car was a little low on oil and it just so happened to trigger the light.

Though nothing that I have ever seen on any road course. I just follow Matt93SE's advice and add an extra quart of oil before a road course event. All the events I've been to there has never been a low oil light on my '96, also you want the extra oil do to the loss caused by blow by at higher revs.

I'd have a custom lower oil pan spacer made before I started adding extra oil for fear of windage/foaming. :noes:

no issues here :gotme:

No problems when oil is topped off.

In my Previa, when I take high-G turn, the brake warning light turns on to indicate low fluid, even when the fluid reservoir is full. LOL.

Jae

No issues with starvation, or with windage/foaming with extra oil?

I was thinking of making an oil pan or trying to add some baffling to the stock one.

I drove at Pocono in '04 a couple times, I've autocrossed several times since, no problems that I know of.

What do you mean by high-G though? Trailbraking at 90-100? Because that's what I did for a total of 2 hours at Pocono.

Either, but this car hasn't been hot-lapping...only autocross and aggressive driving through mountain roads....

Yeah that sort of thing on a mild R comp (no hoosier R6s for me). Maybe it's just not an issue for us. That'd be nice.

I wasn't on R-comps, and I was on stock suspension at the time...so I was rolling all over the place.

It WAS an absolute blast however..........

I thought bout using a ARC oil pan designed for a 350Z as I think it would fit- but the problem is, they are designed to hold oil around the oil pick up screen during a turn. Where if you mount it on a FWD VQ this would mean oil would be there durring high fore and aft forces like braking and accelerating.

I have been runing my VQ with 4.5QTS of oil all its life, never been a issue with foaming, nor have I ever seen the oil light flicker. 180K on mine.

From my previous experiences with my B13 SE-R, I would run a bit over full to prevent oil starvation during heavy lateral forces. SRs tend to spin bearings quite fast if you run them low on oil.

Perfect excuse to convert to dry sump. True story. :nod:

um......auto-x?

what class would that put you in?
Jae

HFI (Hideously Financially Irresponsible). :shiner:

blah...blah...blah...excuses...excuses.....

Would an Accusump change your class? That would be the way to go...