Calling all new Duratec R500 owners

[Pendennis]

Those of you fortunate enough to possess the new R500 the owners with a dry sump system Do you know who's system it is and who makes the sump pan and what bellhousing is being used

 

Thankyou

 

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[The Pikey]

I hear the sump is from Titan.

 

jason

 

Currently, I am qualified to plead ignorance.

 

[rgrigsby]

The bell housing is Titan, I believe the current dry sump system being supplied is the latest Raceline system but the Titan system was used at some point.

 

Rob G

www.SpeedySeven.com

[Pendennis]

Thanks, anyone know how deep (overall) the Titan pan is And why they not use the Raceline sump

 

Is it all a bellhousing issue one asks oneself

 

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[k80rum]

I was looking at the new Raceline bellhousing draughts on Friday. It's certainly a good inch shallower than the previous Titan/CC/Raceline bellhousing and is designed to line up with the bottom of the Raceline dry sump.

 

The bellhousing has ribs at the rear which can be machined off to fit the Raceline car, which has a chassis crossmember at this point. It can also be machined out to allow retrofitting of such a chassis member to the seven. (there used to be a chassis member with a U cut into it for bellhousings a while back apparently)

 

Casting of the new bellhousing at Titan is starting this week, as is delivery of the dry sump pans I'm led to believe.

 

The current Titan/CC bellhousing has a slab at the back which can be machined down if necessary, to make identical to the current Raceline one, which sits further back in the chassis (Raceline engine mounts and first motion shaft trimming required). If this part isn't machined off, it's a CC fit - it uses the CC engine mounts. I guess the new, shallow Raceline bellhousing will follow the same form - a full length CC version which can be machined to sit the engine back, Raceline-stylee.

 

NB, I *think* the shallow bellhousing requires the new, smaller Raceline flywheel but I'm not 100% sure on this.

 

Hope this helps

 

 

 

Darren E

 

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Edited by - k80rum on 27 Sep 2008 21:21:18

[Pendennis]

Thanks Darren

 

I think your spot on regarding the flywheel issue, which incidently means a new starter motor

 

Engine further back

 

That starts another thread one thinks 😬

 

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Edited by - Pendennis on 27 Sep 2008 21:33:11