redvetracr
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Do you have 1 screen filter? I have 4 on each scavenge section and a large -16 on the retour line to the tank. They are easily removed for cleaning.
I don't see how the pan mounted filtering elements are harder to service than the ones inline somewhere else? The ones under near the pan are quite easy to get to.
if you use the factory pad, might as well chop the whole thing off and drill straight into the passage behind it.
I have one large round (6" tall maybe) Mecca screen filter w/-16 line between the pump and the top of the tank (with a coarse element) and a small -10 bullet between the back of the block and the third scavenge stage. What I like about a Mecca is the large surface area opposed to the small surface area of the pan mounted screens (years ago we used a "C-4" aircraft salvage helicopter fuel filter, also shown in the Power book). Inline in an easily accessible place is easier than jacking up your car and climbing under any day. If you look in the Chevy Power book it has a dry sump diagram that shows the pressure line straight back from the pump to the block, it also shows they use a standard oil filter pad mount......On my last three motors we have had the pressure line going in in the front of the block, on the newest motor I plumbed the oil cooler in the pressure line opposed to the Chevy Power diagram that shows it on the scavenge side. I`m just saying drilling the block and using a factory filter pad is an alternative to a remote for the paper filter...for anyone (other than TT reading this) the scavenge screen(s) do NOT take the place of a paper filter.
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