oil press.

[mustangkiller]

I desided to take my car out last night so I was driving down the road I got about 10 miles from my house and i was sitting at a light. i look at my oil press. gauge (autometer) and its a 5psi at idle so i got scared i pulled over ot the side of the road and checked for leaks nothing so I got back in the car not knowing what to do i drove the car to my girlfriends house 3/4 of a mile away it was pulling 20psi at 2000rpms. when I got there I checked again for leaks but nothing was leaking so I checked the oil again it was at normal level. any ideas what wrong with the car I was going to hook another oil press. gauge up just to see if maybe just a broken gauge but I doubt it. I've had no luck with this car so far and this just adds to my problems.

Thanks
Mike

[87vert]

how old is the gauge? The sending unit could have gone bad.

or is it a mechanical gauge

[RdRunnr]

I was going to ask the same question...also, is this a power adder or n/a car?

[mustangkiller]

its a machanical gauge and its not that old, the car has a novi 2ooo blower. I was going to go buy another oil press. gauge to test it but i doubt thats the problem

[RdRunnr]

You probably split the block..

[mustangkiller]

I just went outside and started the car for the first time since the other night to check for leaks in the day time and now the car is pulling 42psi@idle. a split block is what I was scared of since my motor only has 1300miles on it

[RdRunnr]

Yea...that would definitely suck. I know that scared feeling too..lol. It was 42 cold? Let it heat up and then see what it is. How does the oil look on the dipstick?

[mustangkiller]

I just took it for a ride at 180 degrees 10psi at idle its safe to say my block is shot

[blown1989saleen]

yeah sounds like you prolly killed the blocked, its prolly a hair line crack but it will completely go if you got into at all, prolly did it when you were on the dyno with those lean A/F ratios

[mustangkiller]

I think I may just part the car out I've lost interest in it now. I think time to go back to the good old LS1's where I belong