Oil level on a dry sump

[SpeedFreakDave]

Gents I am at Brands next week and have recently had the car serviced by a local garage and I am a little concerned they have put a touch too much oil in. I haven't driven it yet so not as problem as yet. They have it so in the tank when running you can't see the baffle, at a guess it must be flowing about an inch over that. I was told you should be able to see the baffle and base of the tank when it was running and hot.

If it is a bit too full will it just chuck out into the overflow tank whcih is attached to this tank? ie will it not be a problem? I was going to take one of those oil drainers to the circuit in case it gave me grief but its a big piece of kit! Will it do any damage if there is too much in?

Cheers

Dave

[Tango7]

The excess will get pushed into the overflow bottle. Just keep an eye on this perhaps through the day (actually really just at the start of the day as it would have spat it out by the end... doh!)

[fergus]

Dave, as your car is dry sumped, all oil scavenged in excess of what your oil tank holds will be pumped into the overflow tank. Once the car is fully warmed up, you can hit (say) 5k revs for 5/10 secs, and this will scavenge most of the oil back to the oil tank, and push the excess to the catch tank. Just empty this out before you go on track.

You'll be fine.

[BertBert]

Looks like you need to employ one of the methods to check your oil level.

Either use the "put oil in until it comes out into the catch tank" method.

Or dip the tank. I prefer the latter if it is the caterham DS tank. You either have the dipstick in the cap or if it has fallen off, make one to dip from the bottom.

I can't remember the depth 9.5" comes to mind. Don't take that as gospel though.

Dip just after the engine has been turned off with oil hot.

Bert

[SpeedFreakDave]

Thanks guys and thanks fergus! You lot are a helpful bunch!! I will run it warm later today, give it some revs and see what comes out ! That will please the neighbours at least I can remove that massive oil pump from out of the boot now!

[JD68]

Hi Dave,
Are you at Brands tomorrow (12th July)? I'm there for the evening session in a Blue LHD 968CS but plan to arrive during the afternoon. It would be good to catch up as I am currently selling a CSR260 and might be tempted by a R400 next year. JD

[SpeedFreakDave]

JD68 said:

Hi Dave,
Are you at Brands tomorrow (12th July)? I'm there for the evening session in a Blue LHD 968CS but plan to arrive during the afternoon. It would be good to catch up as I am currently selling a CSR260 and might be tempted by a R400 next year. JD

Ah sorry only just saw this, yes I was there. It was an awesome day although I wish I could have changed groups, it seems the caterham club boys didn't do a great job at keeping out of the gravel and we had a lot of sessions cut short with red flags! Mine is neither an R400 or an R500...... it's a bit more powerful than both

Oil level was fine by the way guys, thanks for the help!