Last Dance at 1.2 Million Miles - 3216

[Hammerhead]

Does excess wear exacerbate this problem?
I assume it would, as with more wear the spacing increases, allowing more oil escape loss out the larger gap, thus reducing the supply volume & pressure via the oil rifle in the rods.
Puts a couple points into the 1+1=17 formula...

Basing this assumption on some of our maximum efforts of racing engines. We would deliberately build some excess tolerances to reduce mechanical resistance. We would build and install oil pumps that were capable of 80psi to compensate for the losses. They would never exceed 50psi because of the volume of losses, but supplied sufficient volumes to keep issues at Bay for our desired life acceptability.

***edited to add: NOT that I'm advocating for guys to shim their oil pumps up to 80psi!
Engine life acceptability of a dragster motor is approximately 16 miles!
DO NOT try this at home, even with adult supervision