why is my head welded?

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Yeah, that's about it, what is it? Backround is like always, my car was owned by a shop as their race car, so I always find random shit like this.
Thanks guys!

[a853rox]

looks like they welded and drilled to change the orifice size for oil flow. That hole (with the camp cap in place) channels over to the hole right next to it, that feeds all the HLA's with oil. Most "oil restrictors" are installed here, looks like they choose to weld and drill to do the same.

[khaoSrt4]

Have you tried calling the shop to ask

[bitts]

Bob is correct that's the correct hole where the oil restrictor would go.

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Quote: Originally Posted by khaoSrt4

Have you tried calling the shop to ask

The shop sold it to a friend of mine for 9k. The car had so many problems that he was forced to sell it. I bought it for 3k and spent 3k undoing what the shop had done. I'm still finding shit, like welded rear control arm adjustments ect. So no. I don't call the shop for anything because I would just yell at them.
Some delights were, rear suspension rattle, it had a brake pad inside both rear drums, yes, a brake pad, they just threw one in each to try to get him to come back for diagnosis.
Overboost issues, why? they didn't have any solinoids hooked up. It ran 25psi like it was possesed by the devil.

I still get angry about how badly they modified this car, so any changes I see, I automatically fear.

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Quote: Originally Posted by a853rox

looks like they welded and drilled to change the orifice size for oil flow. That hole (with the camp cap in place) channels over to the hole right next to it, that feeds all the HLA's with oil. Most "oil restrictors" are installed here, looks like they choose to weld and drill to do the same.

Oh, so its just a dcr oil flow mod, cheaply. I can deal with that. The welds good and I've never had a problem all summer.


Question my oil pressure guage is bolted to the rear of the head, does this mod effect what my pressure readings are at? It currently says about 25 at idle.

[a853rox]

Quote: Originally Posted by boostingbackwards

Oh, so its just a dcr oil flow mod, cheaply. I can deal with that. The welds good and I've never had a problem all summer.


Question my oil pressure guage is bolted to the rear of the head, does this mod effect what my pressure readings are at? It currently says about 25 at idle.

Oil temp and weight of oil will impact the reading you will get. Thinner oil will show lower pressure readings, and thicker oil will show higher.

What's important is not so much what pressure it shows at idle, normally anything above 10-12psi is fine, but what it is at higher revs, say above 3500. If it plateaus and is below say 35-45psi, I don't anticipate any issues with lilfter over pump, but if you are seeing pressures above that, then you still may have some. Even if it is a higher reading, it won't hurt your motor perse, but you may have some valve bounce in the upper PRMs because of it, resulting in "choppy" dyno graphs up top. Does that make sense?

If that is the case, and you wanted to fix it, it would require you to resize that orifice to get the pressures you are after. What we do here is drill and tap the hole that is welded in your head (***Disclaimer, we do this on heads that are OUT of the car and can be cleaned throughly, do NOT do this in the car***) for 1/8NPT, take a 1/8NPT plug and drill an orifice through it (3/32 to 1/8 depending on the setup) and then install the plug in the tapped hole. This now becomes a perfectly regulated orifice, and will cost you at most $1.00 for the set screw, and be under $10 if you don't have the tap too.

-Bob

[lVlemphizStylez]

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[blksrt404]

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Quote: Originally Posted by a853rox

Oil temp and weight of oil will impact the reading you will get. Thinner oil will show lower pressure readings, and thicker oil will show higher.

What's important is not so much what pressure it shows at idle, normally anything above 10-12psi is fine, but what it is at higher revs, say above 3500. If it plateaus and is below say 35-45psi, I don't anticipate any issues with lilfter over pump, but if you are seeing pressures above that, then you still may have some. Even if it is a higher reading, it won't hurt your motor perse, but you may have some valve bounce in the upper PRMs because of it, resulting in "choppy" dyno graphs up top. Does that make sense?

If that is the case, and you wanted to fix it, it would require you to resize that orifice to get the pressures you are after. What we do here is drill and tap the hole that is welded in your head (***Disclaimer, we do this on heads that are OUT of the car and can be cleaned throughly, do NOT do this in the car***) for 1/8NPT, take a 1/8NPT plug and drill an orifice through it (3/32 to 1/8 depending on the setup) and then install the plug in the tapped hole. This now becomes a perfectly regulated orifice, and will cost you at most $1.00 for the set screw, and be under $10 if you don't have the tap too.

-Bob

well my area of concern is not that it is to little for my needs, but to help explain an issue i had with the car, not so much an issue but a weird occurance, when i would rev, my oil pressure would go up normally, but stop at 35psi abouts. Is that because of the restrictor? I never took a bottom end reading, just from the back of the head.

[a853rox]

Quote: Originally Posted by boostingbackwards

well my area of concern is not that it is to little for my needs, but to help explain an issue i had with the car, not so much an issue but a weird occurance, when i would rev, my oil pressure would go up normally, but stop at 35psi abouts. Is that because of the restrictor? I never took a bottom end reading, just from the back of the head.

Yes, a restrictor installed would work as you described.

[1stneonrt]

personally i think the best place for monitoring oil pressue is the block not the head.

[fivetoez]

Is that a crack coming from the weld ,downward?

[a853rox]

Quote: Originally Posted by 1stneonrt

personally i think the best place for monitoring oil pressue is the block not the head.

It would depend on what you were trying to gauge wouldn't it?

If you wanted overall oil pressure at the pump, then sure the block would be great. If you wanted to see what the oil pressure in the head was to measure what the HLA's were seeing for pressure, and to monitor them so they don't over pump with excessive oil pressure and cause valve bounce issues..... then you should have it in the head, and you should have read the whole thread too....

[1stneonrt]

Quote: Originally Posted by a853rox

It would depend on what you were trying to gauge wouldn't it?

If you wanted overall oil pressure at the pump, then sure the block would be great. If you wanted to see what the oil pressure in the head was to measure what the HLA's were seeing for pressure, and to monitor them so they don't over pump with excessive oil pressure and cause valve bounce issues..... then you should have it in the head, and you should have read the whole thread too....

what does reading the whole thread have to do with me giving MY opinion with were the oil should be measured?