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David A's Europa

Zetec Oiling System

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The Zetec oiling system is pretty simple. Other than the oil pan which is pictured here it involves a few Canton oil system parts and some AN-10 steel-braided hose and fittings (partly from pegasusautoracing.com ).

picture of oil filter and cooler

Here is the oil cooler itself, looking from the front of the car toward the right rear.

picture of oil cooler from front

The Canton adapter (Canton 22-595) bolts to the oil filter connector on the block. It's heavier than the special aluminum adapter pegasusautoracing sells, but the Canton part does not stick out very far, which was crucial for the (short time) I was mounting the engine electric water pump in the chassis rail next to the adapter.

The Canton filter is pegasusautoracing part 1281. The filter clamp is part 1285-SQUARE, and the oil filter element is pegasus part 1292.

Of course all the fittings, the hose, and the Koul Tools (helpful for attaching hose ends) make the bill add up pretty quickly!

The Canton oil filter holder is the blue cannister. The fitting on top is an oil pressure gauge sender (which I added).

The Canton oil-cooler thermostat is next to the oil filter and cold oil is routed right back to the engine. At 180 degrees F the thermostat begins routing the oil to the oil cooler.

The oil cooler is mounted parallel to the frame and ducts route air into and out of the cooler. I used tufts of yarn and took movies before the cooler was installed and verified there was air flow there. With the cooler installed I took more movies and verified that at 60 MPH significant amounts of air go through the cooler. At the first track day (admittedly a cool day) the oil temperature stayed much cooler than it would have before the cooler was installed.

picture of oil filter

The rounded-look black Canton adapter routes the oil around a 90 degree bend (internal to the adapter) and to the oil hoses. The small line is the pressure-sense block fitting and it goes to the oil pressure measurement system.

picture of Canton block for oil system

The small line (with the oil pressure the block sees) goes to a dry-break fitting here and thence to a small tee fitting so I can have a standard oil pressure gauge and also a red idiot-light on the dash to warn of low oil pressure.

picture of oil pressure measurement system

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