Recently cracked my rear plate. Thinking of going with external lubrication and still running the cracked plate. Anyone have experience with this? This is a street car.

 

External lubrication?

 

I cracked a rear iron once. It externally lubricated the whole engine bay in about 5 seconds.

 

I hope its a joke. I bought a used engine with a crack around the filter pedestal once, unknowingly that is, until i installed it and lost 5 quarts on the garage floor at idle

 

he's not joking there's a way where people lubricate the engine by running a line externally so that if you crack a plate you can still drive the car, alot of drag racers do it.

 

yes racers do it but the engine is built for it.

blocking the internal passage has to be done on the engine while it is apart, you can do this to save cracked irons but the requisite of tearing the engine apart to block the passage will always apply. it's cheaper to just replace the iron and fix the problem, but as a safety measure it isn't a bad alternative, especially for drag racers where it is extremely expensive to call it quits early due to failures and oiling down the track and having everyone give you dirty looks.

 

I honestly thought the title was a joking reference to something like this

 

if you're in Orlando, contact KOPOBA machine shop. He'll fix it for you. 407-466-5764

 

https://www.rx7club.com/single-turbo...s-pics-745594/

 

Thanks guys. Looks like I'll be trying this out and see how it works on a street car.

 

That machine shop is about 1/4 mile away from my house. I actually know quite a few people that know of that shop.