bluebandit48 Posted August 27, 2009 Posted August 27, 2009 Anyone run the canton pan? is it worth the 320 bucks? why do we have to run that exact one? i noticed there are other ones out there for cheeper that probably wouldn't affect the performance as much. just seems silly to me. Rob Quote
HMark Posted August 27, 2009 Posted August 27, 2009 If you run the Canton pan you will not have any oiling issues. My 5.0 held 48 psi through turns 1&2 at Cal speedway at 1.4 G's. I have an accusump available if anyone wants to buy it. -Don Quote
GT4Point6 Posted August 27, 2009 Posted August 27, 2009 I think as long as you have easy access to removing the pan, then the design of the pan with the extra capacity is worth it on a race motor. The accumulator/accusump is good for cold start IMO. My accumulator/accusump never gets hot like some that I have seen which indicates it's discharging and recharging with oil during a run. I've felt some that where as hot as the engine. Mine is always the same temp as the inside of the car. Different motors in different cars... If weight is an issue and since you can mount it anywhere you want, an accumulator is good for prelube and a bit of legal ballast where ever you want to put it. Quote
BADVENM Posted August 27, 2009 Posted August 27, 2009 We recently upgraded our "new to us" '93-'95 Cobra motor with a Canton oil pan we bought from a fellow CMC racer Steve Poe last year. We also added an Accusump type system. We did this for hopefull longevity of the motor (no oil starvation) and a lesser extent ballast. One thing we learned the hard way was that the factory oil dipstick location was not sealed/blocked off when we took the car out on the track for warmups a few weeks ago. This lead to oil sloshing back and occasionally out of the factory dipstick location, filling the inside of the car with smoke. Quote
bluebandit48 Posted September 1, 2009 Author Posted September 1, 2009 i thought you could run either oil pan or accusump, not both.. anyways, thanks for the info, the motor is out so it makes it easy. i think next year i will defenatly run the oil pan. Quote
GT4Point6 Posted September 1, 2009 Posted September 1, 2009 i thought you could run either oil pan or accusump, not both.. anyways, thanks for the info, the motor is out so it makes it easy. i think next year i will defenatly run the oil pan. Old rule, updated a year or two ago to allow both if desired. Quote
bluebandit48 Posted September 1, 2009 Author Posted September 1, 2009 oh ok, i must have been looking at old rules, Thanks Quote
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