MIVEC Oil Pressure?
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2018 10:15 pm
Hi everyone,
I installed an oil pressure gauge recently in my car.
I use Shell Helix Ultra 5W40.
On cold start up and high idle it goes to 8 bar.
When it reaches temperature and base idle is sits at 2 bar.
When the oil is warmed up (70-80C) the pressure is 1 bar.
When I rev it the pressure goes to 8 bar at around 6,000rpm when the oil is hot.
The engine has has a full rebuild.
Those pressures seem a little bit odd to me though. I suspect part of the rebuild might have been a new oil pump?
How hard are these to check and/replace especially the pressure relief spring?
I installed an oil pressure gauge recently in my car.
I use Shell Helix Ultra 5W40.
On cold start up and high idle it goes to 8 bar.
When it reaches temperature and base idle is sits at 2 bar.
When the oil is warmed up (70-80C) the pressure is 1 bar.
When I rev it the pressure goes to 8 bar at around 6,000rpm when the oil is hot.
The engine has has a full rebuild.
Those pressures seem a little bit odd to me though. I suspect part of the rebuild might have been a new oil pump?
How hard are these to check and/replace especially the pressure relief spring?