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Schumann’s Puts Wet Sump Oil Pump Program Up for Sale

Verne Schumann has been around racing since the mid-‘50s. He knows a thing or two about the industry and so does his business, Schumann’s Sales & Service, Inc., an engine parts supplier located in Blue Grass, IA, which Verne founded in 1970. Now, nearly 45 years later, Verne and his wife are beginning to ponder

Front-Mounted Oil Pumps: Good or Troublesome?

On late model engines such as Chevy LS, Ford modular V8s and Chrysler 5.7/6.1/6.4L Hemis, engineers have moved the oil pump from its cozy location inside the oil pan to the front of the engine under the timing cover. Traditionally, most wet sump oil pumps have been mounted under the engine inside the oil pan

New lightweight, aluminum oil pumps for 429-460 big-block Fords from Jon Kaase Racing Engines

These aluminum pumps are redesigned to eradicate fractures at mounting base and to improve idle and high rpm oil pressure Company: Jon Kaase Racing Engines, Inc. JonKaaseracingengines.com One of the main problems that beset tuners of big-block Ford engines is oil pump failure. The casting develops a fracture at the section change around its mountings, which