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Re: Oil filter choice, a little long

To: Barney Gaylord <barneymg@ntsource.com>, MG List <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Oil filter choice, a little long
From: "R. O. Lindsay" <rolindsay@dgrc.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:32:28 -0600
Barney Gaylord wrote:

> At 01:08 PM 1/24/2001 -0600, R. O. Lindsay wrote:
> >.... Granted, our LBCs don't hold the 100+ psi pressure and 7.5 gpm flow
> rates of a big Ferrari but ....
>
> But you're wrong.
>
> Aside from the folks who tweak the pressure up to 80 or 100 psi for MG
> racing engines, the stock MG B-series engine oil pump will turn out a flow
> of 56 quarts per minute at 7000 rpm crankshaft speed.  Some folks on this

Thanks for the correction!  My post was intended to stress the importance
of using good, correct oil filters, not to degrade the MG engine or compare
it, otherwise, to the V8 Ferrari engine.  I trust that is implicit in both our
notes.

Rick Lindsay
Diamond Geoscience Research
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