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I dunno...
That sounds kinda fishy to me, I've been autoXing for a while and taking the tour to the NASA/SCCA opentrack events and have yet to have an engine fail due to oil starvation. Maybe I'm just lucky?
I never overfill my oil, but *usually* change my oil before I hit the longer road courses.
By the way, did you guys know that the 3L oil pan is a little deeper and is slightly small in surface area?
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Originally posted by David Z:
I dunno...
That sounds kinda fishy to me, I've been autoXing for a while and taking the tour to the NASA/SCCA opentrack events and have yet to have an engine fail due to oil starvation. Maybe I'm just lucky?
I never overfill my oil, but *usually* change my oil before I hit the longer road courses.
By the way, did you guys know that the 3L oil pan is a little deeper and is slightly small in surface area? HOLY CRAP!!! DAVID SPEAKS!!!  Good to see you back on the boards David! No oiling help on your car and you're racing an expensive 3 liter with those kick arse cams?!?!?!?!? Shame on you! 
Brad Noon '99 SE MTX 3 point oh my God H.O. 179HP/178TQ BNMotorsports Floormats, powder coating, TB optimizing, Gutted cats, etc BNMotorsports is now the preferred distributor of Contour/SVT/Mystique Indiglo style gauges!!!bnmotorsports@msn.com
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TLP & Silva-
There are ALOT more blown 2.5's than you think. Not everyone responds to every "post here if you blew a motor" post. I've already filled out several, but not that one. Yea, I've blown a motor. No hard right turn involved. #5 con rod bearing spun. I disassembled it myself to make sure that was the problem. Accusump here I come...
Alex in Boulder, CO
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not to mention all the other cars and vans built with duratecs-
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How difficult is it to install a Accusump? Would Fraud give me a hard time if they saw it?
2000 SVT
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windage tray? They said there is no oil in the pan, how's a windage tray gonna help that, except slow down the oil drainback even more. The thing to do is improve drainback
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The 3L heads have 3 oil drainback holes instead of 2 like the 2.5. Perhaps that helps. Is there any info on the taurus blowing engines in the same manner?
warmonger
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no accusumps are easy to install-
yeah you might get problems from ford-
but hey if you sneazed they could claim that the toasted motor was your fault fro having drivin at excessive forward velocity because while you sneezed you thought you were going slower and hit the gas.
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Originally posted by Horse:
but hey if you sneazed they could claim that the toasted motor was your fault from having driven at excessive forward velocity because while you sneezed you thought you were going slower and hit the gas. heheh... I really like you Horse... 
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thnks - evn tho I kant spel wrth biens.
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