Anyone ever had this happen to them with a D16? I was just wondering because my buddy just killed his motor (sr20det) running a down hill area I like to go every once in a wile. It just made me think about the oil pan on my D16A6. I know that the oil pan on my buddy's SR20DET has baffles to prevent starvation due to back and forth movement but not side to side (hard cornering) and that's what killed it. So should I look into new oil pans or is the D16 oil pan good?


Modified by Red_ED8 at 5:21 PM 1/21/2008

 

So I take it no one has ever has there D starve and lock up?

 

check in the rr/ax forum, most guys there recommend a baffled pan, heel-toe auto sells a weld in baffle for b-series pans that only cost like $20.(thats what I have) I dont know about a d series though.

 

I have yet to have any oil starvation on track. Honda has some good baffles in the pan already and if the oil is at the proper mark then you are golden. We have 5 CRX's that we run at the track and we have never had an issue. Honda baffles are from side to side and front to back if you look in a pan that is off the motor. There is no worries.

You do NOT need a new oil pan. I speak from experience on D and B series motors. Most HC racers don't even have anything other than stock Honda pans.

I have never seen an SR20 pan but I would guess if he oil starved a motor it didn't have enough oil in it.

 

thanks for the info. And his motor was good on oil. It didn't drop a single drop. We here taking some hard turns and his oil light came on for a second and that was it. We are going to open up his oil pan this week after we take his motor out to see what we can find but as far as we can tell it just starved.

 

It probably did starve of oil. Not from lack of baffling, but from the pump going out.

If the oil light came on then you must have had less than 7 psi I think it is? I would bet your oil pump gave out.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Tippyman &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">It probably did starve of oil. Not from lack of baffling, but from the pump going out.

If the oil light came on then you must have had less than 7 psi I think it is? I would bet your oil pump gave out.</TD></TR></TABLE>

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Light comes on for pressure not volume. IIRC