Red_bull

Hello guys,

I was wondering or anybody here is using the high pressure oil switch that burton is using. I'm thinking of buying one. On my concours car i have installed a 0-10 bar gauge for oil pressure, so it's really difficult to read on low pressures. The oil light is not going on, but it's set really low by Ford imo. If i don't make a mistake it's 0,3 bar. Now Burton sells one that sets the light on at 1,7 bar. That sounds a bit high to me...

Going from 0,3 bar to 1,7 bar. I don't want to buy the oil light switch and still worrying about the light comming on because my oil pressure is 1,5 bar on idle. I have a high pressure oil pump installed from burton.





Next thing is i have this coilpack on my trackcar:



I'm looking for some good plugs for a nice price. Burton sell some really cheap ones, but also really expensives. I'm going to run on MS2 and i don't want a pair of shit cables, but if the cheap ones are good on a couple of cars of you then i'm going to take the cheap ones


Anyone running these? http://www.burtonpower.com/parts-by-...ds/oes622.html

Experiences?

Cheers guys!

Red_bull

Placing it back on top, I hope somebody can help me with this one!

kermitt

So whats your problem exactly? You don't know when you have low pressure from your gauge and you want to fit a higher rated switch for high pressure.

High pressure is at startup cos the oil is cold and requires more pressure to get circulating.

Do you mean the high pressure pump and not switch?

If so the word on here is avoid the HP pump and go with genuine Ford.

Oil temp will give you a better indication of whats happening cos if it goes over 120 deg C i.e on track then the oil will thin out massively giving you low pressure and bang goes your engine.

But its a concours car so why would you?

HTH

Red_bull

I have the engine of my concours car tuned. Last time it was 210 bhp on mfi, so i want to watch oil temp and pressure. I have a 0-10 bar gauge and because of scaling my idle pressure i really difficult to read. The original sensor won't bring on the oil pressure light until it goes under 0,3 bar [That's really low!] So on low pressure's i can't really read my pressure, because i bought the wrong guage for that. So if i buy the 25 psi burton sells that problem could be solved, but i think 25 psi is a bit high isn't it?

Because of a low idle pressure [on the gauge below 1] i bought a high pressure pump from burton. I haven't fit the pressure sensor back from the gauge, because i have to change it's position.

So i have a high pressure pump, but will i be above 25 psi now? Or could it be that i install this sensor from burton and the engine light will come on on idle because i'm maybe running 20 psi

I have a oil temp as well!

kermitt

Then fit your sensor and see if there is indeed a problem.

The sensor will highlight low pressure as that will be when you have a problem. As you say the standard one is too low and when thatwarning light appears its game over anyway.

So the remedy is to fit the higher pressure sensor that will highlight when the pressure is getting low albeit at a higher pressure than standard giving you more of a safety margin. You can wire this up to the original warning light.

As I said on startup and idle when cold the oil pressure will be highest to get the cold oil circulating then the pressure will drop once up to normal temp.

It is only when the oil is running dangerously hot that the pressure will drop to danger point but you would need to be ragging it for that to happen.

So fit your sensor and see if you have a problem with temp/pressure.

What scale is your temp gauge in? If it goes much over 110 deg C then you are in the danger area. This is where I would be checking first. If its a 50 deg C scale then anywhere more than half way etween 100 and 150 you will damage something internally.

The next solution would be a remote oil cooler kit in place of the original mounted somewhere that will achieve good air flow.

As I said if its concourse and you baby it then you should not be having a problem anyway but if you are ragging it at continuous high speed and revs such as on track then you might do.

Red_bull

Yeah i know about the oil temps also, but there could be other things that cause a low oil pressure. I just want to check everything of the engine while driving. I will contact burton about this. I know about the oil temps, because it's part of my daily job.

I thought that maybe somebody was running the high pressure sensor and could tell me their experiences

Karlos G

iTrader: (4)

Kermitt your missing his point mate, he wants to know if the high pressure switch is ok to use on his RST, which it is not!
On a CVH hot idle oil pressure is no more than 1bar (14.5psi) so it would be on all the time! lol
A more accurate guage is the answer Red Bull

Red_bull

Ok thanks mate!

I allready send it to burton, but i know the answer now then! haha
Yeah i bought my gauges from VDO and they were expensive as shit, so i was looking for a other way to solve is haha

kermitt

Gotcha, I will get my coat