Please Help

[beetle1303]

Ive been reading for a while now about oil pumps. But instead of clearing my mind the thing gets more complicated.

For a T1 1776:

Planning on a front mounted oil cooler serving a heater purpose as well ( need to measure for perfecting design )

what would be the best wet type oil pump?
and which dry sump?

The car is for street use in either really cold weather (0-10 C region) or stupidly hot (around 35-40 C region)

Buy mean of street use I could mean more like street racing for point a to point b . Also small trips are included like 150 km distances mostly summertime. The car is together at the moment and every change will take place after around 4000 km.

JMR 26mm wet type
CSP 4 gear dry sump pump
CB 4 gear dry sump pump
StateSide 2 stage dry sump
VW Speed Shop shadek 26 and 30
VW Speed Shop berg 26 and 30 8mm stud(based on shadek design)

these are the ones i belive i should look into.
From what it seems melling type aren't that good

Can't comment on CB maxi pump.

I could assume that the dry sump pumps don't require drilling and tapping??

P.S.: prefer not to put a deep sump cos of bad roads and lowered rear

ANY comment on the above PLEEEEEASE

Chris

[73notch]

keep it a wetsump.
running those lines all the way to the front is going to make it tough on your pump. I say put it next to the torsion housing, slightly angled or paralell with the ground, between the spring plates and frame horns. and you can still make a heater setup that will shoot through the back.

with that said, i heard 26s are best for that, and that the 30s are actually too big.

[NO_H2O]

shadek 30 and ridged lines to and from the front cooler (short braided lines at each end to connect to the cooler and engine, etc) and it should work fine.

[beetle1303]

whats the difference between ridged and braided lines?

[NO_H2O]

A ridged line is steel, copper, etc.,,,, solid material. It will not flex, expand or contract or give pressure flux. A braided line has a rubber, teflon or nylon type core with a braided outer cover. less flex and expantion but still has some and might give pressure flux if long runs are used. Plain old rubber lines will have the most pressure flux if long runs are used.