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331 Oil Pump Recondition
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 1:03 pm
by Rob
I was hoping to spend a little money on the Hemi this week, but I found some pistons I need to save up for, so I am on to other things I can do for free. I disassembled the oil pump and have it soaking in parts cleaner overnight. When it's clean, I'll snap some pics. It looked real good on the inside so I am going to reuse it. Pictures to come.
Re: 331 Oil Pump Recondition
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:52 pm
by Rob
Alright, one reconditioned oil pump. One thing that i always do on a georotor oil pump is this. I always flip the outside rotor upside down from its original condition. This puts the wear side of the rotors on opposite sides and introduces new unworn surfaces to each other. I almost didn't do it this time because the pump was in such good shape. I also gave the relief spring a little stretch. Not much.
In this one, you can see the swinging pickup. It's pretty cool.
Re: 331 Oil Pump Recondition
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 6:25 pm
by Rob
Re: 331 Oil Pump Recondition
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 6:43 pm
by mart
Hi Rob! NICE looking oil pan!! Your making good progress. By the way - just wondering - did you ever get a positive I.D. on those pistons? Also, have you contacted the guy that's got them and worked a deal yet with him on them yet?
mart
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Re: 331 Oil Pump Recondition
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 6:48 pm
by Rob
mart wrote:Hi Rob! NICE looking oil pan!! Your making good progress. By the way - just wondering - did you ever get a positive I.D. on those pistons? Also, have you contacted the guy that's got them and worked a deal yet with him on them yet?
mart
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Thanks!
Yup. I posted the bad news in the wanted section. One was cracked badly. So much for that.
Re: 331 Oil Pump Recondition
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 7:03 pm
by mart
Rob wrote:
Thanks! Yup. I posted the bad news in the wanted section. One was cracked badly. So much for that.
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Yeah. I just read your post about the cracked piston, *about 2 minutes after* I posted to this thread. I've posted a reply to your post in the "Hemi Parts Wanted" forum.
mart
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Re: 331 Oil Pump Recondition
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 7:34 pm
by mart
P.S. I still think since they're almost new, you should consider keeping the 7.5 to 1 truck slugs and consider turbocharging. It would take a bit of scrounging in the boneyard to find a pair, but two carbureted draw-through turbo set-ups off of a pair of late 70's-early 80's 3.8 Buick Regal, Park Avenue or Riviera 'T-types' would be cheap and pretty easily adaptable. Years ago, I used one of these sets ups on an otherwise bone stock Slant 6 in a '79 Dodge pick-up and it worked like gangbusters. For the the hemi, you could use two complete set-ups and mount one on each bank. You could swap out the stock Q-jets for a pair of Thermo-quads...invert the stock truck exhaust manifolds, make up some bracing tosupport the turbos and bolt the turbos to the manifolds. Since the carbs on the Buick set-up attach to the turbos, rather than to the intake manifold, you could even keep the original 2-bbl truck intake and just hog it out a bit and have the two turbos feed the compressed fuel-air mixture into the intake through some piping fabricated from 2-inch steel exhaust tubing and a flange that would bolt on in place of the 2-bbl truck carb. Two stock Buick turbos would be a bit oversized for a 331, but not grossly so - and in light car with the proper gearing, I think the lag would be manageable. Once they got spun up though, even at a 'relatively safe with stock pistons' 10 lbs boost, it'd be a hell of a ride! Best of all, with some judicious scrounging and some basic homebrew fabrication, it could be done on the cheap and allow you to use a lot of the parts you already have.
Re: 331 Oil Pump Recondition
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:20 pm
by Rob
Dont think I've not mulled it over. But, it's just not kosher with the "old school" look and build I am wantin to do. If push comes to shove, I will just get the 8.5 pistons from Egge, and blueprint the deck height and get it smack on top of 8.5 and cam it wisely.