just curious... if you go dry sump, does the reservoir become the oil cooler?
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just curious... if you go dry sump, does the reservoir become the oil cooler?
No....not exactly.
But could be sorta. Make the tank out of aluminum with some fins and mount it in the wind.
What I was thinking more about though was moving the blue regulator and a whole different hose set up. Mainly to get rid of the super short hose I am blaming for my troubles.
But.
I am still re thinking that. If I thought I needed to dry sump I would have done it before. So I do not believe I need to.....it is more of a convenience thing. I am now back to how to get some more length/flex to those lines. Not much room there for a pig tail of hose.
So still thinking about it. It always was fine before that blue regulator and making that hose so short.
So now I am making a billet cooler. I am sure it wont get rid of as much heat. But it will be tough enough it wont crack. I am gonna get it on it but it will be next summer before I actually know if it works well enough. I have made short around town trips 20 miles or less at a time with no cooler at all on it. It will take a highway run to heat soak it enough to need to cool the oil.
A bit early to visualize what it will be.
The through slots are done. Next will be all the blind slots.
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Then all through holes drilled.
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Just a thought. If you cut an internal thread (think rifling) to the cross tubes it might break up laminar flow and increase the cooling efficiency.
Will you be building the regulator into one of the cooler end caps so it isn't a lever arm to hang off the cooler and be a resonance source?
I did think the drill hole would be rougher. I may look into making it rougher to break it up.
As it stands with this first incarnation of the cooler
things will be nearly the same location and layout.
But the cooler being thicker metal vibrations probably will not hurt it. And then I also have enough meat to it to drill/tap a place for a supporting bracket for the regulator.
thinking of one down-side of going dry sump, would be partial loss of oil cooling already given by the finned metal crankcase that is in place.
you may be on the best track with the billet cooler. will stop breakage for sure.
Lotsa endmilling.
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That cooler is still not complete.
Just off of it right now
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I did dig this out of my junk pile and was wondering if I could fit it under there.
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auxiliary sump?