dizwiz24

I've noticed a bunch of turbo cars come w/ oil squirters to keep the piston cool (comparatively).

Has anyone adapted this technology to sbc or sbc ltx?

mgroshong

Usually it is a way to keep costs down. You can run a lighter, cheaper (cast) piston while still keeping it cool enough not to have problems. could also help with fuel injection tuning as fuel consistency can be an issue and with fuel quality being so very important with forced induction having pre ignition due to a hot piston and poor fuel = warrentee nightmare.

for instance in a honda civic , there dohc vtec engines uses the oil squirter in an N/A application. i figure this helps them cool the piston at very high rpm (8000+ rpm) and allows a very tight P/W without worrying the pistons will swell up due to rpm.

Can't say i would invest the time to install them in a sbc simply for the fact that forged pistons are so easily accessible and affordable it makes no sense to run anything else when forced induction is planned.

rklessdriver

I have run them for years (since the mid to late 1990's) in some oval track and most all supercharged boat engines.

Bo Laws Performance makes a kit for regular SBC's that's really easy to install.

http://www.blp.com/pdf/NP2006.pdf
http://www.blp.com/pdf/install/DomeOilerInstall1.pdf
http://www.blp.com/pdf/install/DomeOilerInstall2.pdf

Will

dizwiz24

This is good info thank you.

dizwiz24

Good info - thank you.

I think:

LS9 = forged pistons + oil squirters (on ZR-1 application).