Terry Nish has a neat oil / engine heater he uses on his streamliner. Real
neat set up.
Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 8:53 AM
Subject: RE: What's in your crankcase?
> Bill;
>
> Bob Peckham's McLaren Can-Am car had a similar dry-sump setup with an
> electrical heater. We used Valvoline
> Racing(non-synthetic) 20w-50, too, but that was because the Valvoline
> reps were always there giving away cases of oil to racers. (Need more
> oil? How about for your tow truck?.....)
>
> By starting the engine with warm oil, everything came up to temperature
> quicker and the oil was already at its operating viscosity. Without a
> pre- heater it would take a few laps to get that big tank of oil up to
> temperature.
>
> Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-land-speed@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-land-speed@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
> ardunbill@webtv.net
> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 4:32 PM
> To: Stephen F. Doherty; land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: What's in your crankcase?
>
> I recently had a chat with a member of one of the leading Bonneville
> roadster teams. He said they use a dry-sump system which keeps 100 psi
> in the engine at all times, and always use Valvoline
> Racing(non-synthetic) 20w-50, but they have a heater for the oil tank
> and get it to about 200 degrees F before they fire the car up to run it.
> This is with an extremely high-output and high rpm smallblock Chevy.
>
> I use 5w-30 Motorcraft non-synthetic in my Ardun at ECTA and it works
> fine for me. I feel with this low-cold-viscosity oil, I don't have to
> worry about getting it real hot. It works fine for me, no trouble. It
> is a fact that cold 20w-50 oil is pretty thick, and I can see that it
> might not be able to get through the crank to the rod bearings at high
> rpm; and cause the trouble that Bryan described.
>
> Obviously personal taste has a lot to do with what oil you like to run
> in your racer... Bill H.
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