> Pardon me if I'm jumping into this thread in the middle and have missed
> something, but 8-10 psi oil pressure at idle doesn't sound normal to me.
> All of my Rover V8s have idled at just around 30 psi on the panel gauge when
> started from cold and at normal operating temperatures.
I've had 6 Rover V8s in various stages of tune and tiredness. The max
pressure I have ever seen at idle when hot is 20psi and even that drops
to 16psi if the oil is really hot (it's a 4.2 with nearly all new components
used for racing). The lowest I saw was around 10psi on a fairly tired 3.5.
Most of them seemed to idle at around 15psi when hot. All of them made
30-40psi at cruise except one that had a Kenne Belle high pressure kit
fitted. That made about 60psi at cruise. It blew the rubber seal out of
oil filter once when cold and I removed the kit.
Ian
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Ian Crocker ian@btcase.bt.co.uk www.seight.com
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