Peterson Fluid Systems

Today we're out in Colorado at Peterson Fluid Systems to discuss dry s I'm here with Justin. He's a team member here at Peterson and he's going to give us a bit of an education on why a dry s I'm Justin with Peterson. We've been in business since 1977. We're a fully American-owned company and all of our products are made in-house from start to finish, from raw material to finish product to the cons We specialize in dry so I've got a little bit of experience with dry s Any expensive engine that leaves Ferrari, Lamborghini, Audi, Mercedes-Benz, they're dry s We've got some race cars out there with dry s You know as the engine makes more and more horsepower there needs to be more oil available, quality oil available to protect those metal components from touching down and ruining the engine and a dry so Justin what is the difference between a dry s So it's going to have a toned oil tank so we can tailor capacity. It's going to have an external p Okay what are some of the benefits that you get out of a dry s One of the big t We have externally adjustable pressure. We can run less oil or more oil depending on what that type of race application is to better suit the needs of that racing w It can keep the life of the engine better and we can control vol And for most of us that are out there in the community we have an engine that is now making more power than factory and some of these engines that started off with four or five quarts of oil there is not a lot of oil available and as the engine speed increases and the crankcase pressure increases from boost and you start running that engine harder and harder you have less quality oil available. So storing your oil off-site out of the engine helps give the oil an opportunity to calm down before it returns back to the p So that's a critical component and as you get into the mitigation of crankcase pressure dry so most of us that are happy that we've now added a catch can and that catch can is not spitting oil out of the engine we t However there's a lot of power to be had in a dry s Justin what is a regular amount of horsepower that's picked up as you move from a wet s When we're looking at creating crankcase vacu So not only are you improving the quality of the oil that's protecting the metal components but you have an opportunity to free up horsepower with no additional stress to the engine actually operating the engine under less stress but it's also making more power. So in shopping for a dry s Can you explain to the end users what the stages of p Yeah so a stage when it comes to dry s Okay. Typically a dry s Now you can also go overboard with it so not every engine is going to need a six stage p On a smaller two liter Honda K series or something The opportunity to drive a cable or mechanical fuel p Or a vacu So we want to try and shoot for the proper amount of pressure at the proper amount of time with the proper vol Yep so if you're working with an engine that maybe it makes 100 psi of oil pressure that's fine but if the engine will live the same life at 70 pounds of oil pressure you're picking up free horsepower. Another thing with the off-site storage of the oil tank is it gives you an opportunity to warm the oil so if you're using a lot of oil and you have an al Another t Crankcase pressure is something that a lot of people just really don't wrap their head around so can you give us a good illustration an explanation of what the scavenging sections of the p So scavenging sections of the p We make all the rotating assembly in that engine easier to turn which frees up horsepower and the other added thing is we're controlling how much oil is flying around so you're not having these droplets of oil that are everywhere in the engine and they're getting hit by your rotating assembly which slows them down it doesn't seem Yep for sure and another thing is like if you watch So we have two different oil tanks on the table here can you run us through the two very different options? So there's a lot a ton of options when it comes to dry some oil tanks and what you want to do and the main t We want to have the right amount of oil because we want that oil to get to the proper temperature to where that engine's going to be happiest without overloading it but you also want to keep enough to where we can get the air out of the oil as well. Something When it comes to tank heating and getting that oil to proper temp we have a six inch tank plane right there w The other option we would have is a half inch weld and bung As far as the dry-s A lot of times what we see is people using line that's not ready for vacu The other t