Any one interested in the oiling mods I did?

If you recall we read an article that claims that rod bearings are oiled by centrifugal force of the spinning crank. That is how the rods get there pressure and feed. According to the article and to Sanborn, who also never used full groove mains, the mains fill up the drilled crank feed passage and the centrifugal force pressurizes
The rod bearings. I am saying that if that is true, that timing is less critical and fill time or dwell time would be more important. According to that article, the rods are not only pressurized when the oil holes line up. They are pressurized all the time.


I need to go back and read it again, but I understand that centrifugal force gets the oil put to the rod, but when the oil feed hole in crank isn’t lined up with the groove in the bearing, the only oil available is what’s in the oil passage in the crank at that time.

And even when the oil hole in the crank gets to the groove, it takes time to initiate flow to fill the passage. The higher the RPM, the less time there is to get oil to the crank.

Im not sure why Sanborn didn’t use FG bearings. Did he ever say why he didn’t use them?

And I can’t find the link to that article! I should have printed that thing off.