Is my oil pressure too high?

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Cold startup - ~100 psi
Warm idle - 40 psi
Warm cruising @ 3000 RPM's - 65 psi
Warm WOT - 90 psi

Mechanical oil pressure gauge tapped into the remote oil filter kit (in line between block and FLA1 filter)

I was reading on NECO guys are getting like 15psi at idle, 60 at WOT

Looks the same as mine.

When I fire mine up it buries the needle. I believe mine is the same as yours and thus it is normal...

Originally posted by rkneeshaw3.0:
Cold startup - ~100 psi
Warm idle - 40 psi
Warm cruising @ 3000 RPM's - 65 psi
Warm WOT - 90 psi

Mechanical oil pressure gauge tapped into the remote oil filter kit (in line between block and FLA1 filter)

I was reading on NECO guys are getting like 15psi at idle, 60 at WOT

If he is getting 15 psi at startup...he has prob tapped the head...

Sweet, thanks dudes

Originally posted by MapOfTaziFoShoâ�??¢:
If he is getting 15 psi at startup...he has prob tapped the head...

That sounds like a good assumption.

Originally posted by DemonSVT:

Originally posted by MapOfTaziFoShoâ�??¢:
If he is getting 15 psi at startup...he has prob tapped the head...

That sounds like a good assumption.

That's if he said at startup. He said at idle. At startup, my gauge will pretty much bury itself. After some cruising around, and I come back down to idle, it sits under 10psi.

Unfortunately, my needle broke late last year, so I will have to send the gauge into Autometer to have it reattached. Not sure what it'd read, if I were driving it that is.

Mark

I tapped just before the oil filter in the block and my numbers are very similar to yours...