I'm new to this forum and a new owner of a C5 Z06. I bought the car for $3500.00 with a valve lodged in the no. 7 piston with a snapped piston rod and destroyed block. The car is low mileage and the previous owner had a low IQ with a fat wallet. I hadn't built a Chevy, but thought I would give this a try. Aside from the challenges of pulling the LS6 out of the car in my garage without a lift and getting it back in, I enjoyed the whole process. I learned a lot from people on this forum and You Tube. I went crazy on the build, and finished on 4th of July weekend. Everything went fine at fire up, sounded like a top fuel dragster. I was totally blown away. On my first drive out I noticed the oil pressure was a little high compared to the basic 10psi per 1000rpm folks seem to talk about. After only 14 miles I had a massive oil leak, smoke everywhere. Soaked the engine compartment along the firewall, saturated the wrap on my long tubes, etc. I got the car home and found that the oil pressure gauge sending unit failed allowing oil to pass through the plug connection. The sending unit was new as was everything else on the engine. I notice the new one I put on was made out of a lightweight silver material (and from China). The one I replaced was brass.

My question has to do with oil pressure. Everything has been replaced, car is up and running. Cold idle yields 50psi, slightly tap the pedal and it jumps to 70psi. Hot idle yields 40psi, slightly tap the pedal and jumps to 60+psi. Is this normal? I'm afraid of pushing it, don't want to have another sensor fail and cause another mess. Valve train is very noisy as well. Sounds like this may normal.

 

Welcome to the Forum, Jeffrey, and congratulations on your C5 Z06!
I would encourage you to ask your oil pressure question in the Tech area of the C5 sections at: https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...s-1997-2004-2/.
This is more of a "hello" section where members having all 8 generations of Corvette may be looking.
Congrats on your build and best wishes for an easy resolution of the oil issue.
Enjoy your ride and save the wave!

 

Thank You! I'll head to that section now!

 

Same post was made in C5 Tech. Closing this one.