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La fiera JUL 07, 12:08 AM

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Originally posted by Notorio:


Glad to see that you are OK. Bravo on the quick action to save!\ your car and garage. It's a bit sad to see another 'Fiero on fire!' incident but it's a good reminder for us all to have an extinguisher handy at all times.



I have two now. One pointing to the gas tank and another one pointing toward the firewall header. And another one handy to use it whereve I need to. Not just with a Fiero, but you neve know
Will JUL 07, 07:13 AM
Oooopsie

Good that nothing worse happened.

I couldn't tell from the video... it was an oil leak around the filter?

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La fiera JUL 07, 08:05 AM

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Originally posted by Will:

Oooopsie

Good that nothing worse happened.

I couldn't tell from the video... it was an oil leak around the filter?




What happened was that I modified the adapter that mounts on the block because it has a restriction. By doing that I took out half of the threads on one side. I must have damaged the threads when doing that because when I was installing it it was hard to turn. I meant to replace it but I sincerely forgot about it.
Will JUL 07, 08:20 AM

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Originally posted by La fiera:

What happened was that I modified the adapter that mounts on the block because it has a restriction. By doing that I took out half of the threads on one side. I must have damaged the threads when doing that because when I was installing it it was hard to turn. I meant to replace it but I sincerely forgot about it.



D-oh! Filter adapters are apparently finnicky... mine is taking up a lot of time as well.

Is there one of these that fits your filter adapter? https://www.gopurepower.com/
Steel JUL 07, 09:48 AM
Glad you caught it in time!
La fiera JUL 07, 12:22 PM

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Originally posted by Will:


D-oh! Filter adapters are apparently finnicky... mine is taking up a lot of time as well.

Is there one of these that fits your filter adapter? https://www.gopurepower.com/



They have the filter but not the adapter. The adapter is Metric 18x1.5 but the remote filter I use SAE out of a '95 Mustang 5.0L.
Will JUL 07, 12:26 PM

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Originally posted by La fiera:

They have the filter but not the adapter. The adapter is Metric 18x1.5 but the remote filter I use SAE out of a '95 Mustang 5.0L.



Do you need to replace your adapter or is it ok as is?
You could screw their filter onto your current adapter, right?
La fiera JUL 07, 08:09 PM

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Originally posted by Will:


Do you need to replace your adapter or is it ok as is?
You could screw their filter onto your current adapter, right?



My kit consists of 4 parts:

1- Oil bypass adapter


2- Lines


3- Remote oil filter location and a good oil cooler.

z/
But I decided to go back and investigate what caused the Oil bypass adapter to come off the block and cause that fire!! Look at this!

That part cocked to the side attaches to the block and then bypass adapter screws to it securely right, wrong!!!! Look at the angle.
that's how much wobble there's in the threads. Obvioulsy this oil bypass adapter has the wrong threads, it's standard not metric.

So, the question is; How did it held up all these years and now decided to give up?

I spend a lot of time blueprinting the oil pump and the bypass itself, I must have increase its volume and pressure by 20%at least just my by massaging the oil pump and the adapter.

Look at this for example:

This is how the adapter is when you get one. Do you see that wall there? That creates cavitation and creates bubbles in the oil.

Now, this is how I fixed that!

I smoothed out the oil flow by blending those walls in. Now the pump works more efficient, not dealing with restriction and now it can put out all that flow and pressure without costing energy.

Since the oil pump is working more efficient in tandem with the oil bypass adapter, now I can understand why the fire took place!
I had the wrong threads all along!!! The nipple being cocked gives you an idea of how much play there is between the nipple and the bypass adapter!

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Blacktree JUL 08, 12:22 PM
So you have to use a coupling with metric threads on one side, and SAE on the other? LOL
La fiera JUL 08, 01:30 PM

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Originally posted by Blacktree:

So you have to use a coupling with metric threads on one side, and SAE on the other? LOL



No, I ordered a bypass with the metric threads!