oil leaking blowing out oil of oil pan gasket

[My2003Mach1]

I have a question.. about oil pressure.
1st let me tell you that I discovered my cam cover leaking just a little bit on the passenger side.

I fixed that by re seating the gasket. Yesterday 6/24/09 i took the car for a drive. I drove it and i was going way easy on it. RPMs 3K at most. I drove about 30 40 miles round trip.

When i got home, I went to see if there was any oil leaking from the cam cover, nothing. looks like i fixed that. However there was oil leaking now from around the oil pan gasket. (canton 7qt) I cleaned that up and tightened the bolts on that side. The bolts seemed to be pretty tight already, bolts didn't move much .

What should my oil pressure be at? (i have the high volume oil pump, ford)

What would cause oil to blow out of my gaskets?

Would my supercharger have anything to do with it?

any help appreciated.

BTW here is a link to my page that list all about my stang

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3347612

 

[trinity_gt]

I have a question.. about oil pressure.
1st let me tell you that I discovered my cam cover leaking just a little bit on the passenger side.

I fixed that by re seating the gasket. Yesterday 6/24/09 i took the car for a drive. I drove it and i was going way easy on it. RPMs 3K at most. I drove about 30 40 miles round trip.

When i got home, I went to see if there was any oil leaking from the cam cover, nothing. looks like i fixed that. However there was oil leaking now from around the oil pan gasket. (canton 7qt) I cleaned that up and tightened the bolts on that side. The bolts seemed to be pretty tight already, bolts didn't move much .

What should my oil pressure be at? (i have the high volume oil pump, ford)

What would cause oil to blow out of my gaskets?

Would my supercharger have anything to do with it?

Oil leaking from the pan is a separate issue from that of oil pump volume or pressure. The oil pump feeds internal oil galleries and passages to the bearings and whatnot. It drip-returns to the sump via bearing clearances and oil drainback holes from the cylinder heads.

Assuming that there's no obvious issues with the pan gasket or pan mating surface flatness, you may have elevated crankcase pressure resulting from, say, blow-by and/or poor ventilation that is forcing oil out the gasket. Can you describe your crankcase ventilation setup in more detail than it just having a catch can?

Nice ride BTW. Looks awesome.

 

[My2003Mach1]

Oil leaking from the pan is a separate issue from that of oil pump volume or pressure. The oil pump feeds internal oil galleries and passages to the bearings and whatnot. It drip-returns to the sump via bearing clearances and oil drainback holes from the cylinder heads.

Assuming that there's no obvious issues with the pan gasket or pan mating surface flatness, you may have elevated crankcase pressure resulting from, say, blow-by and/or poor ventilation that is forcing oil out the gasket. Can you describe your crankcase ventilation setup in more detail than it just having a catch can?

Nice ride BTW. Looks awesome.

THANK you for the complement.
Ok . I was just under the car as i cleaned it up from yesterday and took it out for a spin just now , up the street 3 K shifting, then back to the house couple shifts 4k .. 1/8 mile round trip.

I was under the car and can see the it is NOt coming from the side of the oil pan like i thought.

In front of my engine just above the crank pulley i noticed new oil (as i cleaned the area throughly) Not a lot but just driving up the street n back (engine still cold) (oil pan warm to touch)

I can not see if the oil is coming down the front of the timing cover or not. Cam covers look clean.
Heres a picture of where the oil is now.. The oil is mostly on the right hand side ( looking at the picture)

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[My2003Mach1]

Think i got it figured out.. Front main seal...

 

[trombonedemon]

Any oil leak, seals and valve case ventilation, but thats being optimistic!