oil and coolant amount ?
oil and coolant amount ?
Author
Discussion

spatz

Original Poster:

1,783 posts

215 months

Saturday 1st August 2009
quotequote all
searched the manual and the forum but no hints how much liquid goes in the cooling system and how much oil to fill in a typical ls7 install.
I would assume that for the coolant there is not much difference so SBC installs will probably use similar amount.

thanks 1

yes i am filling her up, very close to fire the beast very soon.

Steve_D

13,802 posts

287 months

Saturday 1st August 2009
quotequote all
Coolant you will just fill until the swirl pot is right to the top and the expansion tank is one third full. Don't mess with anti-freeze yet until you know everything is sealed

Oil will be dependant on what tank you have.
In principal a dry sump will have nothing in it but I would throw a couple of litres in there for the start, guess how much the pipes will hold, top the tank up to just about the low level and have some more ready to put in if needs be.

Steve

ROWDYRENAULT

1,294 posts

243 months

Saturday 1st August 2009
quotequote all
Afetr first sart with a guess at how much oil you need the dry sump tank should be no more than 2/3 full not less than 1/2 full. You always want at least 1/3 of the dry sump tank for foam ect while it is running to avoid puking oil out the breather. Lee

spatz

Original Poster:

1,783 posts

215 months

Sunday 2nd August 2009
quotequote all
ok thanks that was clear to me, but I want the antifreeze already be mixed up so how many litres of coolant ?

thanks

spatz

Original Poster:

1,783 posts

215 months

Monday 3rd August 2009
quotequote all
have the info now from sven from ultimacars.de it is using 12-14 liters for a LS7 setup.