Electric oil pump questions
#4
But what level will the factory oil pump hold up to? I was under the impression that after 250 the oil pump life was decreased by far. Also I figured Id let you know that I have a short nose miata and was just trying to find a way around switching cranks and running long nose oil pump with the stronger oil pump gears. Can the stock oil pumps handle that kind of power?
#8
Boost Pope
iTrader: (8)
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Chicago. (The less-murder part.)
Posts: 33,027
Total Cats: 6,593
Marc, these guys have done a fair bit of work using electric oil pumps in their race bikes: Electric Oil Feed and Scavenge Pumps
Long story short: they mostly rely upon them for turbo scavenge use, as MC turbos tend to wind up near or below the oil line pretty regularly. They've experimented with them as feed pumps, and their very largest one only made 40PSI, and that was into a tiny little motorcycle engine.
I don't see the benefit here. All else being equal, I have to assume that in addition to being more expensive than a well-built crank driven pump, the electric pump is ultimately going to be less reliable in the long run.
Seriously- how many of us have ever had an electric motor fail in their cars. Headlight motor, starter motor, wiper motor, window motor, fuel pump, etc. Show of hands. (counting.) Yep, that's pretty much everybody. Now, who here has had an oil pump fail? One, two... three maybe?
Long story short: they mostly rely upon them for turbo scavenge use, as MC turbos tend to wind up near or below the oil line pretty regularly. They've experimented with them as feed pumps, and their very largest one only made 40PSI, and that was into a tiny little motorcycle engine.
I don't see the benefit here. All else being equal, I have to assume that in addition to being more expensive than a well-built crank driven pump, the electric pump is ultimately going to be less reliable in the long run.
Seriously- how many of us have ever had an electric motor fail in their cars. Headlight motor, starter motor, wiper motor, window motor, fuel pump, etc. Show of hands. (counting.) Yep, that's pretty much everybody. Now, who here has had an oil pump fail? One, two... three maybe?
#11
It's not that I'm worried about it. It was just starting to look like I could get the crank for cheaper than I could find the oil pump. Cheapest one I could find at first was 260. Just ordered one from corksport yesterday for 187. Oh yeah I don't know if I'm breaking any rules by saying this here but if anybody needs a set of the billet op gears and an big nose op pm me I'm prolly gonna end up selling them.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
stoves
Suspension, Brakes, Drivetrain
5
04-21-2016 03:00 PM
JesseTheNoob
DIY Turbo Discussion
15
09-30-2015 02:44 PM