What exactly is the purpose of an oil control jet on a non-VTEC engine?

Is it return or supply, etc.?

Acura no longer supplies them for my D16A1.

 

Supply.........

 

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It reduces the amount of oil going to the head.

 

Yup......of course as i stated, its on the supply side. V Tecs have these too...limits amount of oil pressure.

 

I figured as such.

I just wish they were still for sale ANYWHERE in the world.

 

what happened to yours?

 

Not one to begin with on this block.

 

I like to look at it as reserving oil pressure. The crank journals need more oil, so when you restrict flow to the head, you're reserving it for the bottom-end.