thanks guys. any idea of where I could get the wastegate/ flapper valve? available new? as for the oiling, I found a high performance electric oiler kit for the buick 3.8 turbo's, has a pump, resivore and filter and runs of 12v. is this somthing I should consider?
as for the 60% of the engines cooling coming from the oil, that's actully ASE's figures. I take an vocational Auto class and that is somthing we had to learn. hard to understand but you have to look at everything as part of a whole, rather than just the big picture to understand why it's actully true. the oil cools the main components such as pistions, crank and the like, it does transfer it's heat energy to the coolant, but the coolant as itself cools less than the oil, shure it plays a part in cooling the oil but in the way that it was figured, it is the 60% and the coolant is the 40%, looking at it in the big picture, we think of the coolant as the only means of cooling. still hard for me to understand how, but figured like that, it makes sense to me.