1995 stock oil cooler on a 91 bp05(DOHC) block??

[atlantamx3]

Damn this thread is like 3 years old almost...

[EricM]

yea - one of the first few threads

[MD323]

psiturbo, is raising the dead around here

[psiturbo]

Questions nobody asked

I have seen in this forum the ghetto mod of blocking the piston oil squirters to raise pressure. Well, most everybody seems to agree its a great mod which for me is stupidly ghetto and arcaic.

I bring up this thread from the dead because on one side everybody agrees on increasing pressure with blocking the squirters, but then discuss the subject of installing an inline oil cooler. Also they are comparing bottles with oranges because one is a watercooled oil cooler and the other one is an inline oil cooler.

The watercooled will not affect pressure drop, but the other one I am not very sure. If blocking the squirters raise pressure substantially while sacrificing piston chamber lubrication (defeits the purpose) I cant imagine how much pressure wil drop by re-routing lines to the oil cooling system.

I may be wrong, but it seems some details have been forgotten about oil pressure. At least in our neighborhood (Puerto Rico) we don't do any of the mods, oil coolers or blocking the squirters and its a 80 to 90 degrees island. Cars run fine all the time as long as maintance is done at time. That money should be spent on a new oil pump instead of wasting it on crazy wasteful mods.

[FE3-323]

just shim the oil pump & leave the oil squirters & stock oil cooler.