Oil pressure/Oil restrictors
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BB chevys do not need a bunch of oil pressure to live, some try to run 75-90psi and only thing you are doing is using up HP to drive the pump that hard. As long as your clearances are good and you are maintaining that and oil temps good, you are fine, in drag racing we restricted the oil to the top of engine, but that was for short term runs, on boats you need the oil up top as that is the only cooling for the valve springs and they are high on failure list, running them with little cooling only kills them quicker. The oil lines/cooler/adapters are another story, make sure that is done with good parts and at least #10 lines, 1/2 fittings..
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I changed the stock remote filter adapter on the block to a canton adapter and ran 5/8 id hose , the connectors are 7/16 id to the external filter housing witch is stock merc unit
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Re did the motor about five years ago it was a ZZ502 block and we stroked it and made it a 540 even with a ZZ502 block the oil pressure was kind of the same situation I have now.the pick tube cracked last year and we put a new oil pump in it milodon 18760 and pick up tube and canton oil pan and block adapter. It had a meling hv pump in it before. Changed the oil lines to 5/8 id and the connectors are 7/16 id . The housing where the filter mounts is a stock merc unit. The clearances on the mains and rods are .002 . When we made it a 540 I also put a 30lb bypass valve in it
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[ATTACH=CONFIG]565477[/ATTACH]
AN-10
[ATTACH=CONFIG]565478[/ATTACH]
Since you are using a Canton adapter and 5/8 ID (AN-10) lines I'm assuming the center filter fitting was removed
[ATTACH=CONFIG]565479[/ATTACH]
Center fitting removed
[ATTACH=CONFIG]565480[/ATTACH]
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Dumb question, but are you sure that you have the right bypass valve in it? I'm not going to pretend that I have the slightest idea of what the issue is, but even too many 90* fittings can be a problem. If there's a restriction it overwhelms the bypass valve. This is all assuming there are no mech issues.
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The 7/16 ID would be for standard oil flow and IMO this is a restriction point. If yours was like mine I removed those fittings and replaced with 1/2 NPT to AN-10 fittings.
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[ATTACH=CONFIG]565477[/ATTACH]
AN-10
[ATTACH=CONFIG]565478[/ATTACH]
Since you are using a Canton adapter and 5/8 ID (AN-10) lines I'm assuming the center filter fitting was removed
[ATTACH=CONFIG]565479[/ATTACH]
Center fitting removed
[ATTACH=CONFIG]565480[/ATTACH]
Stock
[ATTACH=CONFIG]565477[/ATTACH]
AN-10
[ATTACH=CONFIG]565478[/ATTACH]
Since you are using a Canton adapter and 5/8 ID (AN-10) lines I'm assuming the center filter fitting was removed
[ATTACH=CONFIG]565479[/ATTACH]
Center fitting removed
[ATTACH=CONFIG]565480[/ATTACH]
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Dumb question, but are you sure that you have the right bypass valve in it? I'm not going to pretend that I have the slightest idea of what the issue is, but even too many 90* fittings can be a problem. If there's a restriction it overwhelms the bypass valve. This is all assuming there are no mech issues.