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Originally Posted by Lobo1186
how does that product work exactly?
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the M96 motors, especially the earlier ones, can suffer from oil starvation in track conditions. it has to do with sump depth, poorly designed sump baffles, and inadequate oil scavenging in the heads. each head has a scavenge pump, but it's located at one end of th car. this means that if you're accelerating or deccelerating while in a sustained high-g corner, it's possible for oil to pool in the cylinder head AWAY from the scavenge pump, running the sump dry & killing the engine.
there is an easy way to address ALL of these problems. the accusump looks like a bomb in your trunk. it's' a big cylinder that holds two quarts of oil under pressure. when the oil pressure in the engine is greater than that in the accusump oil flows into the accusump. if the engine oil pressure drops, the accusump will make up the difference by feeding oil into the motor until pressure returns. it makes sure that, even in adverse high-g driving conditions, there is a steady supply of oil to the engine's wear surfaces.