Paul,
 > > >
 > > > One of the items that has us 6.5B people wondering is how to
 > > > distribute our excess oil, that is the oil that normally
 > > > would be used to cool and lube the second rotor. It would
 > > > seem a waste to just let the pressure regulator dump it back
 > > > to the oil pan. My choice would be to double the cooling oil
 > > > flow to our one rotor. Warm-up should not be extended much
 > > > since we will have less thermal mass and total oil volume.
 > > > Any wisdom from you and all others would be appreciated.
 > > >
 > > > Fred O.

  The rotor cooling is fine for the most part. I use a 180 Webber main jet in
the crank. With racing bearings I can run flat out shifting at 9,300 RPM with
the oil temp under 200 degrees with good reliability. Anything over 170 will
cost you power. The oil temp is important only because the rotor bearing
strength starts to become questionable when the oil is  above 200 degrees.
The rotor and bearing are much hotter than 200 but the oil cooling the rotor
bearing is the important part of the problem. This looks to me to be an
opportunity to use racing bearings in both the rotor and main bearings to get
higher flow rates across the bearings and still have the pressure relief
valve controlling the maximum pressure. You can use an early pressure relief
and jack the pressure up to 85-90 PSI.

Lynn E. Hanover

 
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