At 03:32 PM 1/24/2001 -0600, R. O. Lindsay wrote:
>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.
>>
>> .... the stock MG B-series engine oil pump will turn out a flow
>> of 56 quarts per minute at 7000 rpm crankshaft speed. ....
>
>.... 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.
No offense meant (or taken). Mostly I was just curious as to where the 7.5
gpm number comes form. At what engine speed, and where is that flow being
measures?
Barney Gaylord
1958 MGA with an attitude
htto://www.ntsource.com/~barneymg
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