Post by warpspeed on Sept 27, 2020 23:31:46 GMT
I have a 1.8 BP GTX turbo engine (from a front wheel drive vehicle) plus a BP4W cylinder head that I am very slowly building up as the basis of a supercharged NB engine with a front entry TVS1320 blower.
Its all a rather long story, but I have here a sump and oil pickup from a 95 MX5 to go onto this, and that involves moving the dipstick from the front of the pan, to the rear.
The MX5 pan is much shallower than the GTX pan, and looks too small to hold the 3.8 litres of oil that I believe its supposed to hold.
So to get the dip stick located at the right depth, I filled just the bare MX5 oil pan with 3.8 litres of water to measure the water height.
The water came up to exactly 3.5 inches below the oil pan rails, right about where the dipstick tube finally breaks into the sump, and right up and touching either a windage tray, or main bearing support plate. In fact it completely floods the whole front shallow end of the sump.
That seems to be a LOT of oil, or am I doing this all wrong ?
le sigh