Oil Filter Relocation

[cartoon]

so are we leaning towards the benifits of an oil cooler and relocation dont match up to the down sides?

[tinkerbell]

no,

there are actually two 'threads' of information in here, separate them out and you will have your answer(s)...

[JORDS]

so what is acceptable oil pressure?

i.e 3k rpm in 3rd gear, what psi should it be?

[cartoon]

tinkerbell, my bad I just re read the discussions.

[tinkerbell]

so what is acceptable oil pressure?

i.e 3k rpm in 3rd gear, what psi should it be?

according to Honda - it should be above 50 psi



but above 70 is better... mine is over 80 psi since i have a modified oil pump...

[e240]

When you add an oil cooler, you should also increase oil pressure.

Do this either through washers in the Oil pump spring or uprated Pump gears, but better if both.

we've always run a remote oil cooler on our car and never had any cooling/oil pressure issues even at around 10 + laps.

If you're tracking, you really should have an oil cooler.

[plAythiNG]

When you add an oil cooler, you should also increase oil pressure.

Do this either through washers in the Oil pump spring or uprated Pump gears, but better if both.

we've always run a remote oil cooler on our car and never had any cooling/oil pressure issues even at around 10 + laps.

If you're tracking, you really should have an oil cooler.

do you mind elaborating?

[DLO01]

From this thread, we've learnt that installing an oil cooler kit, drops oil pressure. So its a good idea to increase back up to stock pressure, yes?

Not sure about K series. But I hear they don't increase their pressure at all after installing a oil cooler kit. Timofiy Tit, Toda DC5R are you reading?

B series. There is an oil pressure relief valve that is governed by a spring. Once it sees oil is at a curtain pressure, it opens and maintains that pressure. After installing a oil cooler you need to increase the pressure at the source (relief valve) to compensate for the pressure drop as it goes through the oil cooler system. To do this you need to take the sump off, once off you can access the relief valve which is bolted in by a hex bolt. Once this is taken out, you will see a long spring with the valve at the other end. All you do is add a couple of small washers under the spring to increase the springs tension. Once back installed the valve of course now harder to open, therefore more oil pressure to open the valve, therefore a bump up in oil pressure through the system.

I basically has 75-80psi max (which is stock max reading) before installing my oil cooler, after installing 3 washers in the relief valve and adding a remote filter setup, I had 80psi in the engine ie after the oil cooler setup.

[JORDS]

this is an interesting read

[e240]

^^ what DLO01 said.