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Well 92* in Detroit today, and my car hates it. Even with undertray and a baffle on, once coolant passes 200 there is just no coming back down. After baking at about 219 for the last 25 minutes of my drive, my oil pressure dropped as low as 13-15 psi at 800rpm idle. Fuck that. Time to do the...

That is a good looking setup. What kind of temp drops have you noticed?

Did you just run lines off of a sandwich plate? Inline adapters for temp/pressure fittings?

Yeah I know it, I just had left that stuff off to make sure I don't have any leaks. All good, so it is back on. I think I will take the front clip back off in the near future and try to seal that up better, as well as remove my condenser while I am in there. Don't have any refrigerant anyway.

Put the under tray on and one side baffle. Missing the other I guess. Does anyone run oil coolers?

Yeah they were really cool about it, it was just my luck that none of the last 3 kits on the market worked for me. And of course not lol, my little chin splitter chipped off last year - not sure if I'm sealing much without that. Been contemplating taking the ac condenser out and putting a...

I've put 100 miles on it since putting it back together, and it runs well, but I am still not that happy with some of what I'm seeing. My temps still jump up and try to stay up with the new radiator. Nowhere near as bad as with the stock rad, but I really thought it would bring my coolant temps...

Youre probably right, but i just pucker a little bit when I'm baking in stop and go traffic with 17 psi lol. I have to admit too, that I haven't stalled my car near this much probably ever. Going from the nothingness in my 19 Tacoma's clutch pedal to the ACT 6 puck is getting the best of me.

At least it is curing the paint on my VC and IC piping nicely..... Lol It just sucks - when the engine gets over like 192 consistently, I lose a couple psi of oil pressure at idle. Have since I built it. I heard people say an upgraded radiator would keep it from ever getting close, I can...

I bought one about two years ago, and the potentiometer on it was no good. Could not adjust temp. So I got with them, sent it back, they confirmed the pot as defective, and sent me another unit. Tried unit #2, another bad pot. Sent it back, they confirmed it was junk. Sent me a 3rd unit, guess...

BABY I'M BACK! Got her all buttoned up yesterday and she is running strong. I put 30 miles on it last night to shake it down, and drove another 30 into work today. Hoping it doesn't save the fireworks for the drive home, but so far so good. Oil pressure between 19 and 22, as long as the coolant...

I don't have a son that I know about, but if I do he better get to helping! Haha, I appreciate the sentiment though

Hey don't jinx me now! I am with you though, at least it helped me find that ugly bearing. Whether that was preexisting or caused by this issue, glad I went through that trouble.

I believe that the large port reaches the inlet on the tensioner, circled in red. Very bottom corner of the port. The back of the tensioner was slathered with oil when I took it off, and the inside of the large passage behind it was oily as well. Either way, oil certainly flows through there and...

Small update, but hoping I found my issue. I got back into the motor after work the past couple nights, and upon disassembly of the timing system, I noticed that my chain tensioner screws were only hand tight. Unlike myself, but I must have neglected to torque them down. I noticed that there is...

Unfortunately the last time I was into the motor was 2017, and I moved since then as well. I'm sure the old pump got thrown away somewhere down the line. But I did order an OEM pump for a reasonable price. Better to shop by part number than name sometimes.

Good point, I would have never found that bad bearing if I hadn't gone through this fix attempt. That would have caught up quickly, but now I am beginning it believe it may be a product of the real issue. It's hard not to want to get another Ford pump with a price tag of $85 but I know I...

I sure hope you are right. It was a new pump 10k ago, and had been good to me until I turned the key off last year. It is an ecoboost pump, but my pressures were always in range when it ran. I guess next step is to swap that and cross my fingers. 3rd times the charm?

Well, back to the drawing board. I replaced the upper bearing in the bad journal, as well as the lower bearing halves of all journals. I plastigauged it after swapping them out, and found myself toward the top of the acceptable bearing clearance range (Standard main journal oil clearance 0.019 -...

Hey dude, I had something really similar happen a few years ago. Partial throttle acceleration onto eway then all off a sudden an aggressive rattling noise, car drove like shit, carbon out the tailpipe. Had a borescope so took a look down into my cylinder and one or two of them had a ton of...