During cold start..
How long does it take for your car to build oil pressure or to see the oil light go off?

 

one or two seconds maybe

 

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I have an electrical autometer gauge and it takes about 2-3 second for the oil pressure to get up to around 50 or soo

 

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Same here

 

Less than a second.

 

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thats whats happening in my case.

 

There is still oil in the oiling passages, it's just not pressurized yet. That's the way it is, as long as you don't have the accalerator on the floor when you start the car your fine.

 

Back from the dead: My light stays on for like 10-15sec only when the car sits for a couple hours. It gets me scared. Possible oil pump going bad?

 

Umm prolly. but you should NOT be running the car if it takes 10-15 seconds to build oil pressure. You are surely damaging the motor and bearings by now... Hookup an oil pressure guage to the car to see what kinda pressures you get when full cold, and full warm, and full warm at 3000rpm

 

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Doubt the pump is going bad, maybe try replacing the oil filter you have currently.

 

this was not happening before the turbo. the oil line is from a drag kit so its pretty small too. Only when its cold. I got it dyno'd vtec was working,but I dont know if it is now all the time.

 

Might check into a bent oil pan and or pickup as well as stuff clogging the pickup as well.

 

use some lighter oil weight

 

whats the actual oil pressure?

 

I need to check the presure, Im going to change the oil pan and pump, this week, oil pan looks banged up.

Today the light only stayed on for 5 or 6sec on both cold startup.

 

put a gauge on it , thats your best bet. then go from there

 

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get an oil pressire gauge to see what it is doing when you actually drive the car... the light only comes on when your pressure it VERY low, like &lt;5psi... If your pressure it low ALL the time &lt;30psi, then your bearings are probably done.

 

next step is pressure check

 

Mine takes about 2-3 seconds...But has some terrible bearing squealing until the light goes out scares me everytime..With my luck i'll spin a bearing....

 

Okay thanks for every1s input. I changed the pan the pump new gasget on oil pick up and cleaned it real good.

On my 1st start up the light went out less then a second, Vtec works now