World Record NA VHR Build

BGTV8

How to fit the tank under a closed hatch without boring a hole in the floor is my point ... answer is mount it on an angle.

My race car (for instance) has a 6" diameter, 24" tall dry-sump tank and that lives in the passenger foot well with a 6" hole cut in the scuttle above where your feet sit, so I can access the filler neck from where the battery used to be. Finding space to fit a dry-sump tank where the oil does not siphon into the sump and fill the bottom of the engine so that the crank when you start the engine does not cause the oil to foam straight away is a non-trivial engineering issue.

You really want the oil-level in the dry-sump tank not to be above the crank (because if the crank is submerged in oil when you start the engine, all it does is turn the oil inside the engine into foam and that can be a PITA).

Having the oil level in the dry-sump tank as high as it looks like it is will not be ideal unless measures are taken to avoid all that oil finishing up inside the block (even up to the the bottom of the bores !!) via gravity thru the pressure stage pump.

This is even more important with the Dailey system because the scavenge and pressure pumps are mounted so low in the engine bay.

Hopefully I am making myself clear .. if not, I'll have another glass of red and try again (sun is over the yard-arm in our neck of the woods and I am making a serious impression on a very nice Coonawarra cabernet).

RB