I (the car) need help, please

[Guest]

My car is fitted with a Paxton SN92 supercharger, which has an electric oil pump, and an oil cooler, to keep the oil, well, cool. This oil pump has now failed.

Now for the hard part. It is a brass coloured cylinder, 2" diam/3" long, inlet/oulet in-line, with a code number starting E80 (the rest has rubbed off).
Nobody seems to have any clue as to what this is - I have tried Think Automotive, who specialise in oil coolers, to no avail. The belt that drives the s/charger, now removed, also drives the air-con, so I am doubly suffering (down on power/up on heat).

So, peeps, any ideas ? Not much to go on, I know, but knowing how helpful you all are, I'm sure that you won't let me down.

Post here/email me/'phone - whatever it takes.

I have emailed Paxton, but feel that it is not one of their parts - I live in hope.

Thanks in anticipation (my mum told me to say that).

 

[Guest]

Have you tried the Pelican parts forum? If anyone has the answer someone on it will have.

Cheers

Andy

 

[Guest]

No, not yet.

Problem is, I don't have a part number/manufacturer/flow rate etc., and it is a very non-standard part.

 

[Guest]

John,
Why not just replace the oil pump with another one; another brand?
There around.. I've seen some someplace, can't remember where!
Do a search on Google, electric oil pump.[]

 

[Guest]

Why not just replace the oil pump with another one; another brand?
There around.. I've seen some someplace, can't remember where!
Do a search on Google, electric oil pump.

I've tried all that, to no avail. Think Automotive came up with their pump, which was
£140.00, a lot bigger (nowhere to mount a bigger one), shouldn't run continuously (needs a thermostat, which my system hasn't got, and which I can't fit). Not many electric oil pumps around, it seems, and I have no idea of flow rate, which seems to be a problem.

I don't care what make it is (as I have no idea of the current make !), just of a similar capacity/size.

 

[plhorner]

John,
Have you had a go at stripping your existing pump and having a look at what's wrong with it?
Sounds like its quite a simple unit so won't be that complicated.

 

[Guest]

post pics here and on Pelican. Call around the houses - Bainbridge and Watson are both "engineers", 9M and Phil Hindley both do superchargers of various descriptions. Race car shops are most likely to have knowledge re electric pumps.

Cast your net wide...

Richard

 

[Guest]

The trouble is, the unit appears to be sealed (apart from the connections at both ends).
The cylinder is one piece, except for an end plate, which appears to have a rolled edge fixing it to the rest of the cylinder.

I have the d*mn thing in front of me (I think all the oil has leaked out by now - smelly stuff), and I intend to have a good go at it soon. I can take the end connectors off (they are on screw threads), and that might give me an insight.

Ah well, if only life were..............