We're gonna be mounting the dry sump system up this week.
We have a tank that we got to figure out,
The pump brackets coming,
the pumps here,
We're gonna be mounting up our Turn one power steering pump,
--similar pump that I run in the S14.
But this is meant for a Corvette
So want to make sure it all works together with
our bracket and everything.
Mount up our power steering cooler
because I am one of the few people that use it
and I got a bunch of new parts that came in.
I won't be able to put them on the car because I'm waiting for a
bunch other things but I'm really excited about
and I'll make sure I show you guys.
Stoked!
So you can see here this is called a
spin trick and what this crazy contraption does is it gets suction in
from the dry sump pump into this unit out of it you go to your oil cooler and
then back to your tank but this on the very end actually goes directly to the
oil tank and that's to un-aerate any of the oil and what ARE actually says is
that you run this before your oil cooler because the oil is gonna be super dense
going into your oil cooler that it can lower oil temps 10 to 20 degrees and I
wouldn't say that we had a bunch of issues with oil temps but anytime you
can make the oil temps lower without having to do anything no fans no nothin
we're gonna take it and give it a try so it's a new system from them.
Really really cool.
Obviously I'm new to the dry sump game, so they tell me that it's
recommended I'm gonna believe them and we're gonna give it a go.
We got rid of the Corvette specific tank
because it basically sat right here and it was
completely in harm's way--if you get hit in the fender, if you crash and your wheel
smashes into your dry sump tank it's gonna be a sad day so we got this three
gallon it's much shorter, bigger around, and it looks like it's gonna fit really
really good we're gonna have to do some clearancing in here and down there to
scoot it over a little bit but that's gonna fit nice right there and here's
our vent can from ARE, so we got to figure out where to mount this, get this
mounted alright, get that mounted, work on the other power steering filter, get the
power steering pump on--there's a bunch of mounting stuff in the engine bay.
Alright we're gonna mount our power steering filter right now
We're gonna mount it since the power-steering cooler goes underneath
the oil cooler right here tucked away.
The lines are gonna be short and very discreet.
Alright got the filter, got our centering punch.
I'm gonna hold it
Ty's gonna whack it.
Alright back at these rib nuts. Gonna put em in the frame rail.
Pull it in.
We good!
all right so I'm gonna put on
the turn one power steering pump it should fit perfectly just want to make
sure that it's going to fit so the stock one in there now but I want to put this
one on we're gonna make sure like the lines fit and everything and that it all
works together so let's do it
that's way too hard took me four minutes
all right so I'm gonna be mounting my ARE
dry sump tank now so let me start cutting see if it fits
hope that it fits.
all right so I got it marked out this corner this from the
inside I'm gonna come up in here cut. I'm gonna start cutting as little as
possible and then make it look good if we need to. Don't cut anything we don't
need to cut right now
I'm gonna try to cut this without cutting the frame rail.
See if that works
all right well glance let's see if it fits
And then the rear I want to make sure that the drain goes on the outside of
the frame rail so it needs to scoot over more then.
Alright more trimming
I think it could be a little bit higher because I think the hoods up a little
bit all right so we got some holes got some room pretty sure the tank fits just
got to figure out how to mount it now so if it needed to go further does it need
to go any further out?
Alright so before we go any further with the dry
sump tank mounting we got to see our head height it's there it's a bit mostly
but we got to see how high we can go so I'm gonna open up the new hood from
Andersen composites see how it fits see if we have two clearance anything
hopefully we're going to put the hood for anything and I haven't seen it yet
so whew
it's like raised higher in the centre than the stock going I think that cowl
induction hood but right now how the tank sits it's like sitting against the hood.
yeah just touching so we got to figure it out alright so we trimmed out much
more in the car just made the amount of room that we needed that enabled us to
move the dry stuff take around and bam we found the spot we're going to be able
to actually pull the clamp to the fiberglass and 3/16 fibre glas.t
actually fabricate up to amounts on one side so we're going to place a tank see
if we can get it lined up drill some holes pull at the top then and then see
what we're gonna do on the bottom
all right I think we got our position this is the center line up this is
forward and back so if we line up that line to that line there and there that
will give us where we need to drill our hole we're gonna drill both of our holes
put a spacer the bracket will be mounted to this and then we're going to do
something for the bottom bracket but I think we got our position look at that
concentration
all right so we got the dry stuff take place it's it's in have to do one more
mount down here I'm gonna make it go to this piece of box tube but it's bolted
into the fiberglass have some spacers up in here it's sitting level appropriate
amount of room around the tire we're gonna throw the hood on and check the
hood height make sure we're good I think we're good we're gonna make sure perfect
all right so a couple of very important things came in today a c5 a/c bracket
because my dry sump system from a re bolts to a c5 a/c bracket and then that
will get everything lined up on the correct belt line also the mechanical
fuel pump from watermen got tiny that is it's crazy but when I started putting
the dry sump pump on the motor first step with the AC pump I realized that
this hits part of the block partly because it's for made for a c5 that's
like an ls1 or an ls6 block rhs block that I'm using just cast a little bit
different there's a extra thing in the way there so I'm gonna start by grinding
this tab law so that the AC bracket will fit in there perfectly and then go and
bolt the dry sump pump on and see where it takes us
not quite gonna have to grind some more
almost more grinding all right I got to pump it took a lot of grinding on the AC
bracket pump went right on it once I got the AC bracket to fit but it's looking
good got to do some alignment things because again this isn't that first c5
I'm using all c6 pulleys and brackets and everything it's not too big of a
difference but it definitely has a little bit of difference so you can see
that's where the dry sup pump is going to be that's it it's mostly lined up I'm
gonna have to do a little fitting and stuff want to make sure that the
fittings fit between here they go down to the pan down there but we're looking
good alright it's Sunday we got a lot going on at the shop Brian's prepping
the Red Ranger for a Winter Jam which is next weekend Dave's getting his Corolla
done and I have made a giant mess so I need to clean up a little bit I can't
even keep my mind straight alright so I have my vent can and it's gonna go up in
here and the hose is gonna run to the top of the dry sump tank there's gonna
be a little bit difficult to drain it but it's just standard 8 NPT so we're
gonna get a barb fitting and run a little pet cuff down here so that you
can drain the catch can in theory once you figure out your oil level in the dry
sump tank you really don't get any flow by into here but obviously there's a
learning process that comes with finding the exact right oil level so for that
we're gonna be able to put the drain down here reach up underneath the fender
when it's time to drain it crack the ball valve drain the oil close the back
up and that way I don't have to mount this in the engine bay because as you
guys can see the engine bay is already getting pretty crowded
here nice and sneaky and hidden and still be able to drain it we get some
bolts put it up inside it's not the dry sub tank make sure that all works
together and that will pretty much be done sneaky sneaky little catch can
mount in their house even go right through here to the top of their oil
tank we got our dry sump tank mounted it's placed in its final position super
pumped about that so we have the spin trick here and I'll give you a little
bit of an explanation of how our dry sump system is going to work so out of
the pump this is scavenge it comes into this spin trick and what this is is an
air to oil separator so it comes into the air to oil separator out it's gonna
go to our oil cooler we put this in here so that all the oil going to the oil
cooler is dense oil so the oil cooler is gonna be much more efficient that way if
the oil is dense and uh narrated from that it's gonna come back into our a re
dry sump tank on the tank it's gets all baffled and uh narrated even further and
then this goes into our pressure side into the motor this is the air bleed so
any extra air coming out of this air to oil separator it's gonna go back to the
dry sump tank this is where we run our valve covers to to let the motor vent
even further into the can and this goes back to our sneaky little catch cam
location that you saw me do earlier over there so that's it with the oil system
obviously there's a ton of lines and everything down there but we'll address
that when we actually go to start making lines for now we're good so I just
started kind of getting out the the water line fittings because you see we
have a big - 20 there at the water pump that's gonna run to this bulkhead
through this little mailbox slot that we have right here to - 20 s and then 1 - 3
from the steam ports those are the lines those are probably gonna be the only
lines going to the back inside of the car cuz we're gonna run them down the
passenger side on the side of the seat next week when I get some more fittings
I'll be making up this firewall possibly doing some more stuff with the oil
system because we're gonna do some things with the the belt drive I think I
want to convert some of the secondary drive things to 8 ribs so that
we have no problems driving our fuel pump we're gonna figure out if we do
want to drive our fuel pump off the power steering pump like we intended or
if we want to drive it off the back of the fuel pump like is very common so a
lot of stuffs up in the air tomorrow's Monday I'm gonna call a bunch of people
hopefully get some answers and that would be in next week's episodes I'll
let you know how it goes that's the end of this week feel like it wasn't the
most productive week to be honest but came up with a lot of stuff we came up
with a whole lot of plans know who we need a call we know the next
steps that we need to take kind of out of parts at this point got to dry some
stuff taken care of which was awesome have a few more things to figure out
with that with belt lines and tension airs all that stuff but I'm super happy
with the dry sump how it's all laying out the locations everything else but
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let me know if you want to work with us let me know if you see something I'm
doing wrong make sure you stop the next Tuesday where we're gonna be taking on a
whole new set of challenges hopefully move it to the back work on some stuff
back there because I'm tired of looking at it up here see you guys later