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I have been running a Nitto oil pump on my race car for about 18 months now. In that time, the pump has outlasted 3 different motors which failed for different reasons, but it has just needed a good clean, and it's been bolted back on. But this story isn't really about the oil pump itself.

A recent oil analysis showed that my last motor was rooted, so I organised all the bits to rebuild it over xmas. Of course, the issue is that everyone is closed over xmas so you have to get everything organised ahead of time before everyone finishes up. Bottom end machined by TCH, new pistons, rings, bearings, bolts from Just Jap. Head cleaned. CAMS engine measure and sealing guy lined up for later the next week.

Hills Motorsport opened up the workshop for me to work in over the week because I don't have a place to work at the moment, and we got underway stripping the old motor. On Monday (Boxing Day public holiday) we got to the bottom and and stripped everything inclduing the oil pump.

When we opened the oil pump.....we found a bolt head in it. Bad scoring on the oil pump housing, backing plate and some light damage to the gear. This bolt head had been sucked into the oil pump and had been bashing of the gear for 000s of rpm.

But the real issue is we were stuffed for progress because we did not have another oil pump to use, and I only had use of the space for a week. And the engine sealer was already locked in for that Thursday.

Mark from Hills called up Andrew from Nitto, and he came out on the Public Holiday, picked up the pump, opened the shop the next day and called on of the guys in. Some machining of the housing, linishing of the gears, new backing plate and measuring later, I got back a shiny, useable oil pump the following day with a very reasonable bill.

So....thumbs up for Nitto for helping out when we were stuck. They have an excellent quality product at a good price, but most importantly they are local and stand behind their product.

Good work guys :D

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Ate a bolt, kept flowing oil and wasn't the cause of the broken motor? That's amazing! Heard a story about Paul from Red R Racing GT-R and it's Nitto pump swallowed a bearing and spat it back out and kept going. No idea if its true though.

ahh well oil flow was indeed badly affected which is why the motor died....but that is very much the bolt head's fault, not the pump's. A fair bit of metal ran through this pump but the gears were fine and it just needed fixing of the alloy housing.

sounds like you really got looked after. well done mate.

its a shame that so many other companies don't want to know you after you leave the shop with one of their products.

i haven't had any over-ly horrible experiences myself but i no plenty of people get left in the dark or with no product support.

i spent a few thousand dollars on tools (all one brand from the same shop) and when i had same failures they did not want to know me.

i proceeded to tell them to bash it up their ass and i have since convinced many of my work mates to spend their money else where lol

Ate a bolt, kept flowing oil and wasn't the cause of the broken motor? That's amazing! Heard a story about Paul from Red R Racing GT-R and it's Nitto pump swallowed a bearing and spat it back out and kept going. No idea if its true though.

No, it is not true... firstly it was a fragment of block and secondly it was not one of Paul's engines. Be careful what you write without knowing all the facts; Pauly is pretty anal with his bearing clearances.

Anyway, Nitto = Good!

Hi Duncan

Good to see it came together for you, and props to Nitto that's awesome. If I could put one of their pumps on without the palaver of yanking the engine etc I'd be running one now.

Care to share where it was that said bolt 'bolted' from?

Mark

Also keen to know where the "bolt head" was from?!?

The bolt was a cam cover baffle bolt head that broke off. Unfortunate but not really relevent to this.

I'm more impressed that a company went so far to help out in the week that everybody is shut down.....i don't think an imported Jun or Tomei pump from nengun would get exactly the same level of support.

Arthur, bottom end machining, head clean and bearings were about 1500, pistons, head bolts, main bolts and head gasket were 1500. +lots of time!

Bob, I got mine direct from Nitto, but there are plenty of re-sellers, including in SAU for sale :D

Wow! That's an amazing story Duncan, glad you got it sorted out quickly...

Nitto make great quality products & our "NITTO" R34 GTR, which pumps out 1072awhp with no nitrous is great evidence of that!

It utilises Nitto's 2.7 stroker kit, Nitto's oil pump, Nitto's DB Drag Series headgasket plus a swag of other Nitto parts...

yes i was wondering when i first read the thread how the bolt head made it to the oil pump. i also came to the conclusion that the filter gauze on the pick up must of been removed lol. ?? i know its unrelated to nitto's great servive but tell us duncan how did it make it that far through the oil system :S

Well I think I know what kinda pump is going into my eventual build....lol

On the topic, do Nitto make external oil pumps at all? I've gone this far through summer with no A/C, so hell - might as well swap out the compressor for something useful.

Well I think I know what kinda pump is going into my eventual build....lol

On the topic, do Nitto make external oil pumps at all? I've gone this far through summer with no A/C, so hell - might as well swap out the compressor for something useful.

Red R Racing do a kit

So basically you got some favours the common man wouldn't... Cool story Uncle Dunc :P

My thoughts exactly. It also helps if you're sponsored by the workshop mentioned ;)

Although I've heard nothing but good things about nitto parts. Unlike your sponsor haha

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