Day 11
May 30, 2007
I don’t know if it is every gear head’s dream, but its certainly been one of mine to have some sweet AN hardware and braided stainless lines in my engine bay. Yesterday my Circuit Sports oil block came in, its quite a nice piece.
It has 2 -8AN lines, a -6AN adapter and plug incase you need an oil supply, and a also a port for your stock oil pressure switch. Next I went to the local race supply store and picked up some hardware.
I got four -8AN hose ends, two 1/2” pipe to -8AN adapters, 3’ of -8AN braided stainless hose and an oil filter block.
First I cut the 3 feet of stainless hose in half by taping it with electrical tape and cutting it with the cutoff wheel.
Then I stripped off the electrical tape and slid the hose into the red part of the hose end, putting the end of the hose flush with the threads.
Then I lubricated the blue part of the hose end with some white lithium grease.
Next I clamped the red part into the vice using an AN assembly clamp and pushed the blue part of the AN fitting into the red.
I twisted it with my palm until the threads engaged then used a 7/8” AN wrench to tighten them.
I tightened the fitting until the red and blue parts were just about 1mm apart.
Next I got out the stock SR oil plate and compared it to the Circuit Sports piece.
Then I took the two o rings off of the stock plate and put them on the new one.
Next, I wrapped the stock oil pressure switch with teflon tape and put it in the block.
Then I installed the oil block onto the motor and torqued it down.
Then added the oil lines I made earlier.
And finally connected them to the oil filter mount.
