Billet Oil Pump Gears and Backing Plate - Group Buy Interest??

Elmo370z

Question punk, how many Rams do you think these gears can withstand with the proper supporting mods?

phunk

Its nearly impossible to speculate. In the mustang world, people seem to feel perfectly comfortable with 7500-8000, some higher, and the manufacturer uses them at like 10,000rpm in their race engines. But being an entirely different engine doesnt really give us any truly useful data, just reason to have confidence in at least some improvement.

We wont really know for certain until people have been running them for a while. Only after at least a few cars have been using the gears at elevated RPMs would we be able to decide how good we feel about what types of engine speeds.

What this is, is taking an inexpensive shot at doing what we can with the stock oil pump in attempt to improve its reliability. Its entirely possible that we will find them to grenade at 8000rpm despite the upgrades, or we might find that we get some people spinning to 8500rpm regularly and never see a problem. Only time will tell, because the cost of these gears doesnt afford the test engines and time to proactively find out first.

These gears are not a substitute for an external oil pump... they are just working with what we can for those who are not going to go dry sump anyway, and would like to take a shot at beefing up the stock pump.

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