dnewton3
Staff member
I've got the VQ30 in my wife's Villager. Great little engine. Makes noise at start up, too. I never worry about it. Just turned 200k miles and still runs strong and clean.
Assuming the ADBV is doing it's job, then you should have nearly immediate pressure and flow upon start. Flowing more oil at the filter isn't going to help. In fact, like I stated, the filter will flow far more than the engine requires.
Depending upon year of your engine, some of those VQ engines (like mine) don't even use a bypass valve in the filter; they are in the block.
There's nothing wrong with some little experimentation, as long as you don't venture too far off the reservation and end up with a filter that risks some parameter being grossly out of spec for your application.
Assuming the ADBV is doing it's job, then you should have nearly immediate pressure and flow upon start. Flowing more oil at the filter isn't going to help. In fact, like I stated, the filter will flow far more than the engine requires.
Depending upon year of your engine, some of those VQ engines (like mine) don't even use a bypass valve in the filter; they are in the block.
There's nothing wrong with some little experimentation, as long as you don't venture too far off the reservation and end up with a filter that risks some parameter being grossly out of spec for your application.