Ok a lot happening over here. Might as well update
Car was good on the dyno but had PCV issues and puked a little. I believe I had mentioned this. Been doing some band-aid fixes without getting to deep into it. I was able to drop the pan a bit to get a finger around the oil pan for some RTV. Seems to work good for a bit. Some slight wetness but no drips, I wrote it off as residual oil.
Since fabricating this whole car over the summer/fall we’ve definitely been testing a lot of the car. Mainly cooling and oil scavenging. We’ve seen a max of 71 degrees around here and have learned a few things.
I’m running a TurboWerx Exa pump and have since upgraded everything to 12an with existing catch cans. I had plumbed everything into the old oil sensor port with a check valve. Everything had seems fine until oil temps really got hot. I’ve learned that this port is a bad spot for draining and needs to be higher. Temporary I had put it into my oil fill port. No smoke back to normal but now lost one of my crankcase vents for my catch can…resume oil residue!
Before pulling the oil pan and such. I used my little camera and noticed some serious wetness in the bellhousing area/transcase and potentially a small crack around the bolt hole (pictured). I’m unsure if a rear main seal can leak past the flywheel (anyone know?) into the bell housing/transmission case but I’ve determined I’m going to have to drop the transmission.. looking at the obvious choice… Magnum F. My first trans swap on this car
Things on order or to order:
Improved racing baffle
Rear main seal, cover, gaskets and alignment tool
12an bulkheads for oil pan
Grannas T56 Magnum F with recommend clutch (Monster?), Yoke and all associated hardware
ARP everything
There’s not a lot of info on this site or in general on oil scavenging but my currently I have a TurboWerx exa pump and the base model Spartan. Because these are two different pump I’m not so fond of running both turbos into two different separate units. I’m more curious about running them in-line with each other— example both turbos Y into the Spartan pump and then Spartan pump feeds to the EXA pump and the EXA pump discharges into the oil pan… the possibility of having a sump in between units sounds better but space is limited.
My delta PAG 16” fan is off the car and is for sale. With the low mount turbos, testing a belly pan with a non vented hood (lol) I was getting thermal runaway. Regardless my radiator is a 24x16 unit and two 12” would fit better (no overhang from the 16”)
And a positive notice I received my Weld S77 15x10 and fitted them with a 26” tire. I immediately sent them in for powder coat. Very happy with the color

