Okay I am looking for a way to improve my chances of not starving the motor of oil as well as increasing the area around the pan for my pinion.

What all is required to run a dry sump.

Here is what I have so far but I know there has to be more.

Dry sump pan
Accumulator
Reservoir
Hoses (assorted)
Oil cooler would be good too
Not sure about remote filter or not and external oil pump

Unless you have a BB Chrysler the dry sump oil pump is driven by a belt off the crank. It's not cheap! The total equipment will run you 1500 to 2k! :eek:

Good info HERE (http://www.moroso.com/articles/articledisplay3.asp?article=AboutDrySumpSystems.ht ml)

Yeah I know it is not cheap and I would rather run a modified pan or custom one than dry sump but I am just trying to look at all the options.

Why not run a Moroso 3 quart accumulator, that will give you 3 quarts of presurized oil just incase you need it.

Even with a dry sump system your still going to run the risk of going dry with extreme angles.. Your going to need at least a 5 stage pump, with suck lines on both sides of your oil pan, 2 on the front of the oil pan, 2 in the valve covers. Dry sump works real good if you know what angles and G forces you have to deal with but with crawling weird things happen. The big downfall is the aeriation tank, it still relies on gravity to pull the oil to the bottom of the tank for the oil pump to suck it out...

I would say get a big accumlator and a DEEP pan, the complexity of the dry sump leaves a lot of things that could go wrong, considering all the hoses alone that could get snagged...

I am setting up a dry sump system for the dyno right now, and its not user friendly....

Originally posted by TPIJeep
Why not run a Moroso 3 quart accumulator, that will give you 3 quarts of presurized oil just incase you need it.

Even with a dry sump system your still going to run the risk of going dry with extreme angles.. Your going to need at least a 5 stage pump, with suck lines on both sides of your oil pan, 2 on the front of the oil pan, 2 in the valve covers. Dry sump works real good if you know what angles and G forces you have to deal with but with crawling weird things happen. The big downfall is the aeriation tank, it still relies on gravity to pull the oil to the bottom of the tank for the oil pump to suck it out...

I would say get a big accumlator and a DEEP pan, the complexity of the dry sump leaves a lot of things that could go wrong, considering all the hoses alone that could get snagged...

I am setting up a dry sump system for the dyno right now, and its not user friendly....


Yeah I have heard this before when I was talking to a few guys here that run dry sump systems in the drag cars. The price and added complexity is not attractive at all. I still think a extremely modified pan is the route I am going to go.