I saw this on the DSM tuners and thought.... huh..... this is interesting but I have no idea how good of an idea this is unless it is just a dd with no use of vigor at all! Just wanted to see what others thoughts were.

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I think its awesome. I think it would hold up fine in a high hp car. As long as your oil pressure isn't crazy high it wont affect that. My GVR4 oil pressure is 89 psi at WOT and 22psi that wouldn't hurt that oil drain thing, at least i wouldn't think....

why would oil pressure have anything to do with your oil pan?
I would be afraid of it getting broken off and leaking somehow

Yeah I was thinking more like a rock going up and hitting the switch thing... not so much the psi since is it on a no pressure area.

Luke

^ oh yeah. I actually couldn't see a down side to it, I only thought he was referring to oil pressure because he said a DD with no vigor. As for it getting broken off and leaking could happen, but I mean you would have to slam your car against the ground awfully hard and i think you would be checking the under side of the car anyway.

i suppose depending on how it were to be facing when it is solid in the pan!

I have one of these in my toolbox somewhere. Neat idea, I just wasn't comfortable with the idea of something with a lever that could dump all my engine oil out if it were to somehow be moved, however unlikely it might be. I know there's a safety detent on the lever, but I still would have been more comfortable with the lever safety wired shut, which would have defeated the whole purpose of the quick release lever.

Neat idea, but do you really want to do this on your engine's "blood" cap?

if there was some kind of safety lock I think the idea would be better but as it sits now I would not put it on my engine....

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I don't understand these type of drain plugs. Is is really all that hard to take off your drain plug?

I have one on my Discovery. Also had one on my Montero. Love it and will soon be putting one on my evo. Yes its easy just pull the drain bolt but why when you can pull it and put that valve in. The one on the montero was put on when I first got it with 70k on it. I sold it with 160k on it and that valve never had a leak. I like the fact that I don't have to pull the drain plug. Get oil on my hand. Oh and no more going to the dealership to get the crush washers for the drain plug. Yes on a mitsu you are supposed to change that crush washer on the drain plug every time you do a oil change.

I have an unlimited supply of crush washers /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Quoting Brianawd:
I have one on my Discovery. Also had one on my Montero. Love it and will soon be putting one on my evo. Yes its easy just pull the drain bolt but why when you can pull it and put that valve in. The one on the montero was put on when I first got it with 70k on it. I sold it with 160k on it and that valve never had a leak. I like the fact that I don't have to pull the drain plug. Get oil on my hand. Oh and no more going to the dealership to get the crush washers for the drain plug. Yes on a mitsu you are supposed to change that crush washer on the drain plug every time you do a oil change.



I just think it's a neat idea and being a mechanic who constantly is working on cars for others and myself, I think it's a great idea..

my friend has one on her wrx, doesnt leak and its helpful during oil changes. IDK how it would do on a slammed car though.

I suppose it might defeat the object a little, but if you got the plug with the nipple on the end you could probably find a cap that covered it.

I've had this installed on my twin turbo nissan 350z for over 2 years with no problem, my aluminum aps oil pan bolt stripped and i didn't want it to happen again so i installed the fumoto.
my car is also extremely low and daily driven