Roush oil pressure

Wanted to know from other SPF owners what oil pressure they get with a Roush engine? My new 427SR is 55psi cold, but drops to 45psi at 80 degree C. The 45 psi is from above idle to 3500rpm when it slowly moves up to 50psi. I'm using conventional 10-30 Pennzoil as recommended by Roush for break in.
 
High oil pressure can be a bad thing. The oil pump is driven by the camshaft. The gear on the distributor turns the distributor up top, and the oil pump down below. A high-pressure pump puts additional strain on the gear, which is held to the shaft with a shear pin. Eventually the strain can become too great, and the shear pin does what it's supposed to do (shears) leaving you with no oil pressure, no distributor, and a dead car.

Additionally, too-high oil pressure can blow cheap filters apart which creates a hell of a mess at best, and at worst can oil down your tires and send you backwards into the trees.

Both my Pantera and GT350 clone were built with high-pressure oil pumps, and deliver 70+ psi all the time. The GT350 will generate 100 psi when cold, until the oil warms up. This is decidedly a bad thing in my view, and since that engine is being rebuilt, the pump is being changed to a standard one to give a more-desirable figure, such as 50 psi.

Be happy with what you've got. :thumbsup:
 
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