Straight vs helical cut oil pump gears

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Lunacy
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Straight vs helical cut oil pump gears

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Well had my oil pump all ready to go, but after finding a set of early evo helical cut gears in the box of bits i got yesterday, i started wondering if there were any benefits of running one more than the other?
They are the same size and both fit in my front timing cover.
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Post by fugazi »

Probably less noicey, but does it need to be? :)
Flow? Pressure?

Not better just different?
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fugazi wrote:Probably less noicey, but does it need to be? :)
Flow? Pressure?

Not better just different?
Yeah the noise was only thing i could think of, and as this is a track car, i dont really care about noise :beer
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Ive actually seen the helical ones wear the oil pump housing, as they generate end thrust as they turn, wheras the straight cut ones dont
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I always thought that unique 'electric' sound of the sohc 4g63 came from those straight cut teeth.. keep em
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