HV oil pump and distributor drive gear questions

[redneckgames]

I have decided to rebuild the motor in my truck and get the body painted. I ordered the 350 street performance kit from Northern Auto Parts. It comes with a crane engergizer cam and a high volume oil pump. Do I even need a high volume pump? Do they require any additional block work? I heard that they can also drain the pan dry.

The cam I got is the 274 part # 100172. Do I have to change the distibutor drive gear? Some people say yes and some say that they never have.

I just don\'t want to have any problems from anything. I can always buy a stock oil pump instead, I reckon, if yall think that I will have problems or have to do extra work with the high vol pump. And I don\'t want to have to replace a distibutor gear because of wear either.



Thanks guys.

[gdmclnh]

I used the same kit. The Melling oil pump I got with the kit was the high volume oil pump. But, luckily I noticed another relief spring in the box the pump came in. The pump actually was a high volume, which is what I wanted, but upon reading the paper with the pump it had a high pressure spring installed which was not what I wanted. I had to swap the spring that came in the pump for the normal pressure spring in the box.

[gdmclnh]

Also my truck weighx 3600 lbs and has run over 100 mph in quarter. I have the same cam you are using, with 1.6 ratio full roller rockers. Putting 4:10 gears and 100 Hp NOS kit in it for this year. See what I can break. That cam has LSA of 106 deg. Not really a good choice for NOS use. 112 LSA is better for NOS.

[grimpuppy]

you won\'t need to change your distributor gear unless you ae switching to a roller cam. Roller cams are ground from billet and are not compatible with the iron distributor gears. The high volume normal pressure pump is the one I prefer to run. I have never seen one suck a pan dry though I have heard the rumors the same as you. When I ran circle track I used the northern kits and the melling pumps and never had a problem with them.

[redneckgames]

Thanks guys. I checked the box with the oil pump. It doesn\'t have any other springs with it. I am going to try to get one that will lower the pressure. Again thanks