Looking for a CSL....

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Originally Posted by Mike R

Did you not see that video that was posted up recently "24 hours in 70 minutes" ? They were rigorously checking the oil and topping it up as necessary, as the engine failed on one of the cars - the rod punched a hole through side of the block - this only normally occurs due to some form of oil starvation, causing the bearings to pick up on the crank and then when that happens, it's usually just a matter of time before the rod tries to make an escape attempt :lol:....

I would also point out that it was stated that this happened ONLY when the oil level dropped sufficiently, not just because of the wet sump arrangement..... It is my understanding that the factory sensor arrangement doesn't give enough warning of the drop, hence why the race cars (despite the carbon air boxes) in the above video had a dipstick set-up for manual checking of the oil level EVERY TIME the car came into the pits...

You could quite feasibly be driving around with it well below the correct level and not know until the engine is able to do a check of this. Quite often when I have wanted to know the level, I haven't been able to get anything other than two dashes, as it needs certain parameters to be met before it will do a check, so it is quite worrying sometimes. So far it has always read 1.1L when it has then been able to perform the check.

Pretty much what I said in my post when I put the link up to that N24 film. Why oh why do they have an electronic 'dipstick' which cannot read the oil when on track - ??????
There must be someone who can perform a modification to the dipstick tube so that it can be measured without taking the f@@king airbox off .

As far as the rest of the mechanics goes do not ask me .

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