purposebuilt

Hi I was woundering about the oil squirters. First off I have a 95 b18c5 I'm building and it has
jdm itr pistons
b18a knifed edged crank
stock shot pined ls rods with arp rod bolt
and I was woundering would it be better to bend the oil squirters to clear the pistons or plug them off I use the car as a daily and hit the strip once in awhile and plane on doing more road courses. So what do you all think. Thanx

K20.ek

you have several post so are you running a c5 or c1?

and for the oil squirters I had to block mine off because even if I tried to bend them they still hit the counter weights of my crankshaft. But I’m running forged Carrillo pistons so I don’t need the extra cooling of the oil on the pistons.

JKaze

I have done it both ways with my engines. Naturally aspired, B18C-R based one (forged pistons etc.) I removed them and blocked ports. With sleeved B16 I decide to keep'd them because of higher thermal load in future, just a bended little bit that they got enought cleareance to pistons.

K20.ek

Weird. Even when I bent my squirters I still had the counterweight of the crank hit two of the screw heads of the oil squirters. Hit and miss I guess, some get lucky and some don’t 😆

JKaze

^Yeah it is tight, but doable . Just couple millimeters to the center.

Before, tip touch right to piston.




Upper, unbended squirter. Lower, bended.




Clearances, just enought.