Toyota oil starvation

[SimonK]

Just a short note to say that the other day I took a bend really fast and there was no immediate blowing up of the engine due to oil starvation. As soon as I got home I checked the oil and it was all present and correct. No funny noises from camshafts or anything either. Looks like I may have got away with it that time. Go careful out there though...

[NathanE]

Is this a joke?

[midas029]

SimonK said:

Just a short note to say that the other day I took a bend really fast and there was no immediate blowing up of the engine due to oil starvation. As soon as I got home I checked the oil and it was all present and correct. No funny noises from camshafts or anything either. Looks like I may have got away with it that time. Go careful out there though...

I`m a bit confused???

anyway I see you are @ Bedford on Mon. I`m travelling down on sun what about you?

[Phil-CH]

Probably just a friendly reminder that with semi slicks and high speed bends, it's possible to starve the engine from oil (with the standard oil sump), which would reinforce the point that a baffled oil sump really makes sense.

Glad nothing happened simonk!

[bher]

Glad your car is OK but could you give more info about the speed and the bend because, as you know, our cars share the same caracteristics and having done in a sport amateur style quite a lot of tracks (spa 10 times, dijon, magny-cours, nurburgring F1, assen, colmar-berg, abbeville, Croix en T) I never had this problem. Maybe I am driving too slowly

What I had..... is the same feeling with an almost empty fuel reservoir during high speed bend. The tank of the elise is transversal and very long (I think 1meter by 15 cm by 15 cm) in the chassis just behind the seats . During the Lotus Cup last year, it was quite classic to start with not enough fuel to keep the level high enough for the pump during the last laps.
So you experienced in long bends a sudden loss of power. I think this is what you had ... and hope too

Benoit

[S Works]

bher said:

...having done in a sport amateur style quite a lot of tracks (spa 10 times, dijon, magny-cours, nurburgring F1, assen, colmar-berg, abbeville, Croix en T) I never had this problem. Maybe I am driving too slowly

Having passengered with you, that I SERIOUSLY doubt my friend!

[Grinzzz]

Group buy on baffled sumps sounds like a great idea to me.