My take on the oiling system crossover tube for the small block
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I keep hearing about these great ideas but have yet to see them.
If it's some closely guarded secret and they don't want to share it, so be it.
I would appreciate whoever's coming out with this just shutting their pie hole.
Basically put up or shut up.
Not talking about you antro9.
Give me a bit of time. I'm ******* busy. I've already WRITTEN out how you fix it. I thought I was going to have time Sunday to pull a block and make a video but I got to spend another day at the ER. Monday I had two heart tests. Now I have to go out of town.
I've said it before. It's all about oil timing and you don't fix that with that idiotic crossover.
In fact, you are so sure it works, explain how it works. How does it correct oil timing to the rods? Tell me how the oil is traveling "too fast" down the gallery to make the turn down the feed to the 3-4 rod throws, because it doesn't.
If you are stuck running hydraulic lifters (why anyone would do run hydraulic lifters anymore is beyond me) you can still tube the passenger side gallery, and restrict the drivers side way down. Then drill a .0625 hole in the tube where it breaks through the lifter bore. That's all the lifter needs.
You can't fix a rod bearing oiling issue with a crossover. I had the privilege of know for many years a guy who was paid by Chrysler to sort out the oiling issues. We were at lunch and he told me how they did it "back in the day" with a ton of **** that didn't matter and then the old crossover tube. I said none of that did ****. So he stopped by the shop and looked at what I had. Then we put a bow tie block up on the table next to mine (which he agreed would oil the rods to well past 10k) along with my crank and the crank for the Chevy. I pointed out where he was wrong. After watching him stare at that junk for two hours, watching him measure hole diameters, figuring all the timing out for himself, he said, and I quote "why in the **** didn't Chrysler put this in a technical bulletin because oil timing is THE issue". And I said "hey Jim, why in the **** is Chrysler still selling W-2/5 rocker shafts with the oil timing off on those????" Which started another another two hour detailed showing of piss poor Chrysler engineering. Then I showed him my letter to MoPar Performance outlining the issues with the oil timing of the shafts and the response MP sent back to me which was go get stump broke.
I have two friends who want to go back drag racing. I've been doing everything I can to discourage them from it. So far, I have not dampened their enthusiasm. What I did do was stop them from wasting one red cent trying to do what they want to do with a Chrysler of any sort.
They are now looking at a N/A 632 BBC with Big Chief heads. Which is a damn sight better than the 400ish inch small block I quashed from the jump and the idiotic idea of wasting double the money of trying to build a Predator head based BBM.
To run at the level they want there is not a single reason to deal with anything Chrysler and I would not be able to look myself in the mirror if I didn't do my best to not let them waste their money on Chrysler over priced, under performing, under served junk.
So give me some time and I'll make a video. It will be in my time frame. I should send out a bill for the education.