DeTomaso Mailing List: December 2000, Message #141

>Hey Gang

1 statement, 1 question.  Statement: Have you tried a vertical water neck 
for a 5.0 mustang, they stick out no farther than the start of the water 
pump and route the neck straight up.  A quality welder could maybe even 
turn it sideways.

Question: With all the oil cooling, broken "shear pins", high volume oil 
pumps that are thrown around, why not join the guys who turn left and step 
up to a dry sump system?  I can only think of two problems (1 workable, the 
other?), workable: the drive system, ?: dollars.  A good system will run 
around $2000 to 2500, but you could all quit worrying about track oil 
starvation, pans would be smaller, oil wouldn't froth, etc. Has it been 
tried?  With the cubic dollars in your engines, a few more in a oil system 
would be money well spent.

Kenny




>         I *AM* curious as to how the factory did it.  Maybe there
>is enough slop in the engine/trans to slide it back ~.5-1" and things
>probably fit....   Also, for all of you considering Windsors (*not*
>trying to start *any* kind of flame war), Summit has a pretty good
>article on a 393 stroker that makes 529 hp at 6500 RPMs and 472 ft/lbs
>of torque at 5000, and still has almost 400 ft/lbs at 3000 rpms.
>
>I'm pretty sure this engine would *not* run all day at 6500 RPMS, without 
>some semi-serious mods to the oiling system as well as oil cooling...can 
>probably tell better, but constant running at those RPMS
>are not solved by a high volume/pressure pump.. :)