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YOUR RESEARCHTony Angelo put a 5.3 LS in a 996
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I'd say the bigger problem is the tank, plumbing and pan which in a car where like a handful of people have integrated a dry sump system (cough 996 Carrera), you are on your own to elect the right components and package all that ****, which was a real challenge for me at least.
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I run a similar oil pan on my LS1 and haven�t had any issues.
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I run stock height suspension for now�and hit a few speed bumps HARD without bottoming out.
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I'd say the bigger problem is the tank, plumbing and pan which in a car where like a handful of people have integrated a dry sump system (cough 996 Carrera), you are on your own to elect the right components and package all that ****, which was a real challenge for me at least.
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He used to be on Hot Rod Garage and also was a pro drifter in Formula Drift.
That oil pan sump is low and really far back, no speed bumps or steep inclines for that car. Probably solves the oil starvation issue until it gets a hole in it.
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It lives and is hilarious.
Not to turn this into an oil thread, but with modern advancements in electronic motor controls, an electric dry sump oil pump would be cool to have in the market.
Here is one such design example
Well, Tony can actually build ****, Hoovie just does whatever he can for views. I think in the environment Tony is going to use it, the pan will be fine. If he tries to bring it on to a road course, that may be a problem but hey, its a problem the M96 has too (ask
@De Jeeper
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I enjoyed watching the build series and have followed Tony for a long time, his time with Lucky at HRG on Motor Trend made that show fun and although Alex Taylor is hot and seems to be a great wrench, I liked the show a lot better when Tony was on.
It's good to see him having a successful YT channel doing what he likes to do, and if you don't get a kick out of the reactions of the guys experiencing LS power in a 996 - well, we are a lot different. His reaction gives some justice to just how much fun the 996 is with a bunch of power.
You would need to stack multiple of them together, dry sump systems need scavenge, 2 or more stages, as well as a pressure feed. So, you're looking at a minimum of 3 of those pumps. And really, the pump side isn't a problem with the tech thats available now (externally mounted multi stage pump driven off crank shaft). Seems kind of like looking for a solution to a non problem to me. I'd say the bigger problem is the tank, plumbing and pan which in a car where like a handful of people have integrated a dry sump system (cough 996 Carrera), you are on your own to elect the right components and package all that ****, which was a real challenge for me at least.
I run a similar oil pan on my LS1 and haven�t had any issues. I run stock height suspension for now�and hit a few speed bumps HARD without bottoming out.
cool to see someone else making their own Helmholtz resonators!
The oil pan in a precarious position is non negotiable for me, been down that road before,, and my car is lowered, and I guarantee my wife�s non lowered convertible would have been damaged with her driving it. It definitely takes the acceleration oil starvation away.
the dry sump pans are much shallower, but packaging the pump along with AC becomes a challenge. There�s a pan that mounts the pump on the bottom of the pan, but now it�s similarly hanging down as the wet sump pan above.
I have seen a few dry sump pumps mounted in other positions with AC and alternator that seem to work well enough.
of course, if you wanna mount a skid plate to it and be done, that�s how we do it in the Jeep world.
