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Hey guy's I'm new here so first let me introduce myself. My name is Danny, 40 years old and I recently bought a DAX Rush, lotus seven replica which I completely stripped. I'm in the process of completely rebuilding it and I am currently working on rebuilding the rover v8 crossbolted engine which I would like to build to fast road mild race specs. I'm Dutch so please bare with my English. I'm quiet new with the Rover engine so my question might sound "stupid" again bare with me

I recently bought a dry sump system, fabricated by John Eales, on ebay for a good price and would like to fit it to my engine. I added a picture which I hope will show so you guy's can see what I bought.

The problem I have is that I have no clue about how and where to add the oil feed. As you can see on the picture is that some of the oil passages (I assume) are blocked off with some kind of wax. The oilpump gears are removed and is blocked off with an aluminum plate. So I'm not able to add the oil feed line from the pump to that area.

Where and how should I fit the oil feed line?

Excuse me for my ignorance and I hope you guy's can help me further

I don't know if your kit car is LHD or RHD, but if it is an LHD or if you intend to convert it in LHD, you could have some problem to have enough clearence to bolt the pump on the left side of the block because steering relay.

One solution to supply oil to the block is to remove completely the oil pump gears housing of the front cover.



After that you can clog oil passage in front cover and ask to your local machine shop to made an oil pipe directly fitted to front cover to supply oil to the block.

It's been a while since I posted this message but I still wanted to thank you for the pictures. I sent my front cover to John Eales and he sent me back just one like pictured above.