fucking oil pump
 

I blew my oil pump or something yesterday. I was getting the car ready for inspection, when I the intake cam jump timing 180deg. the timing belt was on tight, so I dont understand why it did.
then I took the car for a spin, and noticed I werent boosting so I took it to 7800rpm to make sure that the turbo is just laggy and may need some motivation, but did not get nothing but spool up sound and a 0 vac on the boost gauge (thank god for that.) havent figured where the leak is yet.
so then I took my eyes off the boost gauge and look at the oil pressure gauge, and it was at 25psi, so I press the gas to see if it would raise it stays the same, then I took the car home let it idle and it was idling at 5 psi. I have too oil pressure gauges, one electrical for the engine, and a mechanical for the turbo, and they both read the same,even when I turned the needle valve up on the mechanical one. hope I did not mess up my motor by driving it on 25psi of oil pressure.
I should have listen to my freind when he told me not to use the lightweight crank pulley, now I am out $150 for a new oil pump, and searching for a oem pulley. hope thats all that needs to be replaced.

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Ouch.As long as you had some oil pressure and didnt go to far on it hopefully there is no damage.What pulley were you using?

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should be ok if you didnt rev it up many times and get the oil real hot.

generally rule of thumb is 8psi of oil pressure per 1000rpm

so i your case 25psi, 3,125rpm

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some forum racing light weight pulley. did not have a stock one, so I used it and never got around getting a stock one. I hope not, I went 5 miles on it, I was trying to see how much I need to retune my maps

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I was almost at 8000 rpm when I noticed

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b series get a CTR pulley (lighter)
d series use a LX pully (lighter)

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like i said it should maybe probably ok as long as the oil wasnt super hot or something, even better if you had something like prolong in it.

8000rpm = need ~64psi oil pressure

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lighter is not good. I just found that out. or is it because it was aluminum with no balancers

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Some people say the CTR one is no good as it does not have a rubber isolator thing in it to cancel harmonics.Pretty debated subject and I have one sitting here for my LS/Vtec build that I am debating using.

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don't use it! for once I wish I would have listen to the folks at honda-tech. I will probable get a fluidamper