Oil system diagram, and oil cooler installation & routing Options

[stugray]

I would like to design a dry-sump type of system for my race car.

One thing I have found is that diagrams that show how the stock system works and how to modify it for other parts (coolers, dry sump, "full flow",etc) are hard to find.
So I made this diagram in Visio (CAD-like) so I can move parts around and ask the proper questions.

Does anyone have any suggestions or comments about making the diagram 100% correct before I start trying to modify it?

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I could provide the original file, but not too many out there have visio.

My next step is to get out a spare case so I can see EXACTLY where these parts go, exactly what any adapter might look like, and identify where all of the galley plugs would be in the diagram.

Stu

[stugray]

mrbubblehead,

thank you. your diagrams from the other thread were my inspiration.

I understand that you can close off some ports (with welding) or other ports (with blockoff plates) or use bypass plates, etc.

I want to have diagram(s) that show all the various possibilities.
This is a good start and I can share the cad diagram in more than one format as we move forward.

Stage-1:
External Oil cooler with minimum changes = the oil filter sandwich plate with plumbing to cooler element only. Everyone knows how to do this, you can buy the kit from AA

Stage-2:
Remove stock oil cooler and oil filter bracket and plumb in remote cooler (completed in step 1) and install better remote filter option.
This will give any oil filter option desired plus protect expensive cooler option (from step 1)

Stage-3:
Remote oil filter bracket has built-in pressure relief so that stock relief valve can be removed/bypassed. This must dump back to case (oil galley plugs or 'retired' pressure regulator port?)

Stage-4: Full blown dry-sump with dual oil pump and 6-cyl like oil sump/tank.

I have already committed to dual front oil coolers beneath the headlight buckets. Now I want to plumb it as smart as possible to make transitions from stage-1 to stage-3 as painless as possible.


I will update the diagram this weekend with the correction above and what i learn from navigating through my spare case this weekend

Stu