Thread: Oil pickup

This is from a RWD SR20 http://zilvia.net/f/1759919-post72.html



What does our oil pickup look like? Is that something our pickups could benefit from?

My dads KA the other end fell off ... Broke the engine from oil starvation on hard cornering ... But yea, I can see that being an issue ... Pretty sure the FWD SR is similar ...never seen one break off before ... but for hard use , it may be a good idea ..

Added some pics so people wouldn't have to click out to another forum.

If someone can post a picture of their pickups from a DE and a DET that would be great.

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I happen to have three different styles kicking around at the moment (highport, early RR, late RR). The highport has a support arm that bolts to the bearing beam. Both RR's have supports welded to the bend. I'll get some pics.

here is a ve pickup. weld all the way round.

ive never seen that happen on any sr motor, thats gotta be a one in a million thing, Our fwd pickups have a brace that bolts onto the girdle. so that would keep it from falling completely off, but again ive never seen that happen on any of our motors ever. lol and ive been around for a while.

From left to right- highport, early roller rocker, late roller rocker

Do you think it is possible for us Non-RR guys to benefit from the later roller rocker pickups?

It's an awesome design, practically impossible to clog. They are all different depths though, designed to work best with the matching oil pans. If you notice, it's a little shorter than the others. That half inch or so of extra depth is pretty important when you are talking about oil levels in the pan.