Kenneth,
So how many quarts of oil are recommended to be used with the larger
pan?
I read a few posts about using only 5 or maybe 6 quarts for a much
larger pan
so that the oil level in the pan is sufficiently below the crank to
prevent
splashing and foaming.
Yeah, I've heard people say that before. That's nuts. The reason to use a
windage tray and also a crank scraper, if one is so inclined, is to keep the
oil reserve in the pan, no matter what the engine's oil capacity is.
Is that correct, or is more oil used for
increased
cooling capability?
The ***only*** real reason for more oil is to dramatically increase thermal
energy transfer to the water based cooling system of the engine, and into
the air, if an engine oil cooler is employed, which also hepls to cool the
water jacket. In an air cooled engine, the oil cooling capacity is all the
liquid cooling one is going to get. Both liquid cooled and air cooled
engines use the atmosphere for final cooling, because the thermal load must
be ejected somewhere, and on this planet, that's going to be injected into
the atmosphere. In space, one would use radiators to *radiate* the thermal
load into the cold side (dark side) of the space vacuum.
Remember, to produce high horsepower, the quantity of excess heat will
increase. That thermal load *must* be eliminated somehow, or the engine will
not survive. Power is produced by heat and more heat.
Milton Schick
1964 442 Cutlass
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