I hear about the advantages of a dry sump oil system such as smaller oil pan, cooler oil and hp gains, but what are some disadvantages beside the cost of the pump and tanks? Is there any problem putting a dry sump system on a street car? Is there lots of maintenance on a dry sump system? Thanks.

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A typicall car chassis doesnt provide enough room to mount the resevoir and/or the pump.

I am currently in the process of installing a 5 stage dry-sump system in my 68 chevelle. This car is not driven on the street, but it retains all stock front suspension,inner wheel wells,etc. You will need to do some fabrication to mount everything, but it is not really difficult. I located my pump on the pass. side because of steering box interference. I did have to notch the frame for the last stage of the pump to clear. I welded up some chromoly tubing to the frame that has a slip joint for easy removal of the tank(Moroso tank). I am currently working on a pan right now. The benefit of a system as this is more pan clearance from the ground, better oiling in a high 'g' load atmosphere.the ability to put a vacuum on the crankcase for better ring seal,etc. I think it is overkill on the street both in practicality and $$$ wise. If you add up the cost even in used parts you will have probably close to $1500 on the low side(the lines and fittings get expensive) and $3000 on the high side for everything.I bought my system at a local consignment auction for racecar stuff in general, mostly stock car stuff. Nobody there was interested I guess, I bought the 5 stage Moroso pump,all lines,fittings,tank,filters,heater,madrel,etc for about $700. I also bought some other stuff there at the sale and resold everything for enough profit for 0 dollars in the drysump deal. This is the only way I could justify the cost. What are you out to achieve on the street? Just curious.

The engineer in me is looking for the best system available. I've got a '69 Camaro that I would be putting this on. I'm not really planning on racing it, but I would like to take it to a track for tuning and playing. I kinda like the idea of having an external oil pump. I figure I'll be keeping this car until I'm dead. I got this car about 19 years ago and currently have the car in 15 million pieces. I want to build this machine so that it looks awesome and runs awesome. I plan on turning my 350 to a 383 with one of Harold's 288/296R9's, fuel injection, and AFR195s. I'm putting a lot of money into my baby, but I figure when I'm done it will run and look nice!
Keep the advice coming in. Thanks for the info.
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in my opinion it is a wast of money to put a dry sump system on a street car. A really nice wet sump system will live forever, it will cost way less ($2000 to $2500 less) and will be a cleaner install.

Dry sump has huge advantages for racing cars, but for street stay with wet sump...if you want to go a step up, try the billet pumps such as Titan...or for 2-3 steps up, run a wet sump system with an external pump.

okay, what's a dry sump system and what does it do?

Here you go

http://moroso.com/articles/articledisplay2.asp?article=AboutDrySumpSystems.ht ml&catcode=14005

Ok, let me ask another way. Will a dry sump system not last forever? Will the lack of windage hurt a street motor? Thanks.
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