Dual stage oil pump

[WXman]

One of the cool features about the Pentastar (Ward's Best Engines multi-year winner) is that it uses a dual-stage oil pump. The other day while cruising down the highway at 70 MPH with a trailer in tow, I decided to play with it a bit. I switched over to the oil pressure display on the dash. What I noticed is that 3,000 RPM seemed to be the threshold between low and high speed. Below 3,000 RPM it would go down to low speed and run at around 40 PSI. As soon as the trans. downshifted and kicked the tach needle above 3,000 RPM the pump would go into high speed and provide 80-81 PSI.

Very nice feature for efficiency while still providing good protection while towing. Nice.

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[gspfunk]

That’s pretty cool!

 

[Wrangles]

My 6sp stays between 31psi and 33psi.

 

[Litfuse]

My 6sp stays between 31psi and 33psi.

Not if you drive it above 3500 rpms and it will shoot up into the 60s range.

 

[SouthTexasJLU]

Mine shoots up, and comes down, when I left off the throttle. Otherwise it's at 30-33PSI.

 

[DaltonGang]

@WXman

How do you get it to that visual mode? All these new features kind of throw me off.

 

[WXman]

@WXman

How do you get it to that visual mode? All these new features kind of throw me off.

If you have the upgraded center dash cluster, you can navigate to "vehicle information" and then use the left/right buttons on the steering wheel to switch to oil pressure.

 

[DaltonGang]

If you have the upgraded center dash cluster, you can navigate to "vehicle information" and then use the left/right buttons on the steering wheel to switch to oil pressure.

Nope. I guess i will just not worry about it then. I write everything down, in a mini notebook anyway.

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