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

[Dave_Darling]

You're not going to remove the cooler from the engine with the engine in the car. Not without doing a whole lot more work than just dropping the motor.

(Yeah, you theoretically could remove the studs that hold the cooler on, but it would not be easy and you'd have to somehow thread them in again through the new part.... Not to mention fitting the bypass for cooling air!)

--DD

[ClayPerrine]

You're not going to remove the cooler from the engine with the engine in the car. Not without doing a whole lot more work than just dropping the motor.

(Yeah, you theoretically could remove the studs that hold the cooler on, but it would not be easy and you'd have to somehow thread them in again through the new part.... Not to mention fitting the bypass for cooling air!)

--DD

Dave.... It's not hard to remove and replace the cooler when the motor in the car. I did it in the hotel parking lot in Salt Lake City.