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My old '91 Alfa 164 3.0 V6 easily used 8 quarts. 5.8 is nothing...
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The Bondurant SVT's use 7 quarts. They said "more oil help make engine no go BOOM!"
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The Bondurant SVT's use 7 quarts. They said "more oil help make engine no go BOOM!"
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Champagne 1997 GL
"I've never had a ten, but I've had five two's, and that should count!
Green 1998 SE Sport V6 MTX K&N,KKM oil cap, Ford Racing 9mm plug wires, No RES, and a Hood Bra.
Champagne 1997 GL V6 MTX FOR SALE: CEG discount
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? sw
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"Where do you guys get the idea that the cars have a low oil capacity???
As for the V-8's your referring to, they only had one camshaft. We've got four of them. That's an awful lot of oil tied up in the heads.
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BNOON if it helps there is a silver SVT sitting in the "rebuildable" lot at the local salvege lot with 58K on it and they want 1500.00 for the whole car!
It looks like something sideswiped it.
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Hey, sorry to hear about that. Hopefully my little info can help you guys out. Apparently a lot of ford's DOHC engines have oil starvation problem if you want to spin them past 6k; The oil pump tend to suck the pan dry if you stay past 6k for more than 5 seconds or so. There are plenty cobra engines that spun the bearings because the owners are only running 6 quarts on both the street and the track. I guess contour just got the same problem since the duratec is one of the few ford DOHC engines that actually spin past 6k(cobra is another one). So just put an extra quart of oil in the pan for insurance if you plan on running the car hard.
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Originally posted by tcobra98:
So just put an extra quart of oil in the pan for insurance if you plan on running the car hard.
Don't forget about oil frothing, the windage tray in the Duratec is a little "underengineered" IIRC....
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Man, a baffled pan and an Accusump sound better every day... ------------------ JaToTulsa, OK jaysek@home.com 99 Contour SVT #143/2760 Modded to Taste 00 Corvette Coupe Modded to Haste
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Not sure if you guys have seen this, but here is a pic of the tray... http://4.41.5.82/Project%20Parts/3L/windagescreen.jpg Sorry to hear about your engine Brad! Is there a possible 3L in your future! 
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Man brad...... sorry to hear about the failure. I know all to well of what a 'spun bearing' is. I relayed some information I was told by a mechanic that has worked on quite a few Duratec engines in the past; which was exactly what this post is discussing now. The fac tthat the engine basically sucks the oil pan dry and doesn't do well at balancing the oil over the entire engine during 'high rpm' runs. It's a terrible design flaw but nothing that can't be dispelled. So Mirko makes the oil pan. Who makes the sump?
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