Full flow oil system, is this bs or what? Options

[kdfoust]

I'll be getting my case back from RIMCO pretty soon and I'm thinking about the oil system. I'm planning to run a 30mm Schradeck (sp?) pump. I've read a number of threads about "full flow" oiling for TIV engines and I guess I don't get it.

For full flow on a TIV you do what?
Plug or modify the oil filter bypass valve that I've circled below? Then what?
Modify the oil pressure relief valve (new spring I guess) to accomodate higher pressure? Then what?

At what pressure does the stock cooler blow open like a pan of Pop-Magic pop corn?

TIA,
Kevin

[ThinAir]

In the Grassroots Motorsports Magazine "Project 914" story on their engine they say this:

Shine Racing Service "removes the oil filter bypass assembly. From the factory, Porsche provided a ball-and-spring assembly to allow oil to flow around the oil filter should it become clogged. While this sounds great in theory, adding something as simple as an external oil cooler will change the pressure to this bypass, causing the oil to simply go around the filter. While we are not presently using an external oil cooler, this oil filter bypass modification is something that Shine does to every 914 engine he builds."

The specific location that they show in the picture is in the top of the oil filter mount. From what I've seen elsewhere about this it simply a matter of taking a punch of some kind and closing up the space.

It seems to me that if you are already in the habit of changing your oil & filter regularly and generally watching over your baby (like adjusting valves regularly and always inspecting the oil screen for debris) that no longer having the relief would be no big deal because the likelihood is so low that you would ever have a clogged filter.