Hey Hi-Tech and Jeffko,
Hi-tech it looks like a sweat combo and fact she is a stroker alone tells me she is not a Stock engine. Many of the aftermarket parts listed like your Eagle recip. assembly have a little extra clearance built in to them. The clearance I believe is opened up from stock is the rod side clearance and I know they have a nice radius on the crank pins so a Hi volume pump in my opinion would be right in line.
I know there are other schools of thought here and have read some of the stock hard liners support and I respect their opinion to run what they want. My 2 cents is too suggest running a higher volume pump. You asked what to do if
oil temp was low running a T-stat with a cooler. If cold that is an easy fix with simply blocking the coolers air flow. Even though all systems have a bypass valve the systems are ON BYPASS very seldom if at all. It is rare for any stock or aftermarket pump to go on the bypass mode with exception to last resort or just before other things fail. When on
oil pump bypass no filtration is done it is just dumped back into the pan.
Jeffko... That is from a chebbie guy so the best I can do. LMAO !! Your
oil temp is not that bad at 250*, I would rather see it at 250 than at 150* all day long. Then again I raced an old Chrysler's (well kinda) for years so who knows. All this talk about oil and pumps reminds of the days before knowing better or at least good sponsorship. We would wait till the alky floated on the oil so we could pour it off after separation and run it again. We would get 2 to 2 1/2 quarts of alky in the oil after a weekend.