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[Trublu]

Man if that was me I'd have pulled into valet parking at the hotel and propped up at the bar

[Supercharged111]

That front end looked like it held up nice through the fence. I can only imagine what was going through the guy's mind in the Ford truck that was pulling out onto the road.

[dtanker65]

Found a clip of Craig practicing at Sebring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3yrxrcxTUc

Too soon?

Nice! Wasn't it Chuck Yeager who said that when crashing is inevitable, find the softest thing you can find and hit it as slowly as possible?

[Storm Trooper]

Found a clip of Craig practicing at Sebring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3yrxrcxTUc

Too soon?

Been there done that!

[Alien]

Well, apparently LT1's don't like high volume oil pumps. Found out today the culprit of my retirement after R1 was the oil pump drive gear being pretty chewed up and missing teeth. Going back with a new stock gear and hope it plays nice with a used cam. Optimistic to get it back from the machine shop and in the car for TWS.

[Supercharged111]

Holy fuckin LOL that was spectacular! Were the 2 victims substantially damaged? Looked like a shower of plastic from the vid.

Oohwee, watching that again is not pretty. How'd Craig come out?

[Pranav]

Well, apparently LT1's don't like high volume oil pumps. Found out today the culprit of my retirement after R1 was the oil pump drive gear being pretty chewed up and missing teeth. Going back with a new stock gear and hope it plays nice with a used cam. Optimistic to get it back from the machine shop and in the car for TWS.

Did you notice if the drive gear's plastic retainer up top was split or not? I've pulled one or two before that were split, not tooo big of a deal but someone out there made a metal insert to reinforce it. I think with the direction it spins the split wouldn't be too big of a deal, but adds piece of mind.

[Storm Trooper]

Did you notice if the drive gear's plastic retainer up top was split or not? I've pulled one or two before that were split, not tooo big of a deal but someone out there made a metal insert to reinforce it. I think with the direction it spins the split wouldn't be too big of a deal, but adds piece of mind.

You should always run a hardened oil pump shaft! They have a metal retainer pined on the assembly.

[ShadowBolt]

Well, apparently LT1's don't like high volume oil pumps. Found out today the culprit of my retirement after R1 was the oil pump drive gear being pretty chewed up and missing teeth. Going back with a new stock gear and hope it plays nice with a used cam. Optimistic to get it back from the machine shop and in the car for TWS.

When I started building the first Ford SOHC 4.6 for the 55 I was going to use a high volume pump but after talking to Sean Hyland he told me they made a set of cam covers out of clear polycarbonate. While running the 4.6 with HV oil pump the cam covers filled up with oil........Not good. He did say if you are willing to drill the heads so the oil can get back to the pan faster the HV pump is okay.


JJ

[mach1]

I've heard nothing but bad stories about the HV oil pumps, I have never run one. I guess if you run the motor really loose they shouldn't be a big deal, I usually run .0015-.002 on the mains and rods. I suppose they would work well with really light oil too, I run Rotella 5w-40..