Thread: Some Thoughts on Oil Pressure, Oil Pumps and Oil Viscosity
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Old 11-08-2002, 08:29 PM
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Keep your oil pressure gauge pickup AFTER your filter, cooler, and any other crap you cram it through before it gets to the main galleys. Then as long as it stays above 15 at idle and 35 at speed, you should be fine. High volume pumps add heat to your motor oil because they circulate so much more oil through the pump and bypass, yet no more through the motor. And run a WIX racing filter.
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