Re: Whoa! The pressure!

["Patrick Bureau" <pbureau@home.com>]

Anyone have a tech on where to install
a Mechanical Oil pressure guage? or a
Electrical one is better ?

Please advise.



On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 19:27:49 -0800,
Kevin Collins said:

> Ryan McCarthy wrote:
>   
>  > I installed a new oil pressure gauge today in the rocco. Started the
>  > engine and was amazed at what I saw. With the engine cold, 10w-40 part
>  > synthetic oil, 1100 rpms my oil pump is putting out about 120 psi! After
>  > getting to operating temps it settled down to 40psi at idle and about 85
>  > at 2000 rpms. Is this way off the charts or what? I referenced my bentley
>  > and it only gave a minimum of 28 psi at 2k.
>  
>  My car nearly pegs 150 psi when stone cold, quickly drops to the 90 range,
>  then at full operating temp, runs at about 60 psi at speed, 15 or so at
>  idle.  Drops to around 45 psi if I head the oil up much past 220f or so,
>  and will go up above 60 if particularly cold outside.. your figures don't
>  sound too strange, other than 85 psi at 2k - if that's with a fully
>  warmed engine, that sounds too high.
>  
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