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- From: schludermann@sscvx1.ssc.gov
- Subject: Re: Pressurize Oil Before Starting ?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.075336.1@sscvx1.ssc.gov>
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- Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:53:36 GMT
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- Here's something I read a while back in a Racer's supply catologe. In auto
- racing the acceleration rates (lateral and linear) can be sufficent to cause
- the oil pickup to come out of the oil in the sump. A solution was to have
- a cylinder of a couple of qts connected to the main oil galley and pressurized
- from it. Thus under most cases some oil pressure was maintained. There also
- was an option of installing a soleniod valve interlocked with the ignition
- switch so that this cylinder would hold this pressure and reuse it when
- starting. Pretty trick eh?
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- Kris
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