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I do not know if this has been covered on this forum. If it has then just ignore everything below this line. Just hoping to save people multiple rebuilds
We have a car in the shop right now for a REW install, that has spun bearings on multiple engines prior to it coming to us. As I was reworking EVERYTHING, there were multiple candidates for causes of this failure.
Bearing failure is caused by oil starvation, and this car had more than its fair share of massive oil leaks. However the main cause of the multiple engine failures was the use of the Renesis Oil Filter Pedestal, this is a must with the REW install since there is no clearance for a filter or the oil cooler return line with the REW pedestal.
The problem is that the pedestal looks like it will mount directly to the engine, which it will, however the supply hole to the bearings is more than 50% blocked, the hole for the oil to return to the pan through the pressure regulator does line up. This leads to a false sense that there is plenty of oil reaching the engine internals.
Renesis gasket on a REW, notice how the top hole it half blocked.
Renesis gasket on Renesis OFP
Renesis Gasket on FD OFP
Etched hole locations from REW
Dykem and scribing
Ported
Last edited by Banzai-Racing; 03-26-2015 at 09:52 AM.
Thanks for posting, saving a couple of us a few headaches down the road.
Do the holes on the pedestal need to be port matched? A quick idea also, why not use an Rx8 oil filter relocation kit and use an FD plate to mate to the block. Theoretically you would only have to worry about matching AN fittings, correct?
Do the holes on the pedestal need to be port matched?
That is what the last few pictures are showing
Originally Posted by LiveWire
A quick idea also, why not use an Rx8 oil filter relocation kit and use an FD plate to mate to the block. Theoretically you would only have to worry about matching AN fittings, correct?
there is no clearance for a filter or the oil cooler return line with the REW pedestal. There is also no room for a OF relocation kit on the FD pedestal.
Good information. I had a small o-ringed plate machined that is FD ports on one side and Renesis pedestal on the other but this seems much easier to do.
Obviously, they would need to be, otherwise you would either be feeding all the oil to the regulator or all to the bearings. Both scenarios would result in instant failure.
I was referencing the factory oil flow through the OE pedestal. What you are planning should not hurt anything as long as the filter is not too much of a restriction, since all the return oil is going through the filter. Factory flow splits the return between the regulator at the pan and filter, then the filtered portion goes to the bearings.
Thanks Banzai, I noticed that same issue when attempting to test fit the RX8 pedestal onto the REW block. I will make those modifications as you illustrated.