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Originally posted by LT4 Vette:
200 miles per hour !!!!
Maybe you should enter your car in the Daytona 500
Surely you jest. I assume you are talking about Nascar or what I refer to as WWF on four wheels.The way those guys bash and crash I don't want my vette anywhere close to them beside they are restricted to 355 CID with a restrictor to reduce the power my car has a 406 CID with a supercharger it would go pass one of those cars like a freight train going by a hobo.
The restrictor plate cars only make 550hp and that body would be about as aerodynamic as a brick.
That filter story scares the **** out of me. I have been using the PF35L and 15-50 for 6 years and the only problem is that I had to replace the rod and main bearings at 5000 miles they were down to the copper. While 5000 miles don't seem to bad this engine is driven a lot of those miles at normal speeds only occasionally run real hard. I think part of that problem was the oil pump. Most big name engine builders recommend a standard volume pump even John Lengenfelter recommends it but my engine makes much more power than the average street engine. When the bearings failed I replaced them and installed a HPHV pump. Been three years and no lose in oil pressure yet.
DREW99GT the transmission is a ZF-6 speed manual 5th and 6th are overdrives. The car at red-line in 6th would be doing 310mph but it gets too much air under it and becomes imposable to handle. Best I have ever seen is 264 and that was really about 10mph faster than what I was comfortable with it was really getting light.
427Z06 You have me rethinking my decision to block the oil bypass in the block. When I change the filter I may remove it. If the bypass in the filter opens dirty oil would be better than no oil. But on the other side of the argument is the fact that it has been running for 6 years like that with no problems other than the short bearing life. If it ain't broke don't fix it.
I just sold it this summer but I had a Kawasaki that I bored out to 1300 cc installed blower grind cams and a Ray-jay turbo and port work on the head and it made over 300 hp at the counter shaft. Stripped the bike down to less than 400lbs. Man that thing was awesome but I had to replace the wrist pins every 300 miles they were as blue as a gun barrel. Making big power does not go hand in hand with long engine life. I kinda got of topic but when I came here seeking advice about my oil some wanted to know more about the car.
You guy's have given me some things to think about. This winter I was thinking of increasing the nitrous to make more power but before I do that I think I need to get the heat under control
