ok i took my car for a ride yesterday and i was running it pretty hard. i whas a wot when all the sudden it lost alot of power, so i let off the gas and it died so i coasted to a stop and started it back up. my oil pressure was really low so i limped it home and turned it off, let it cool, and started it up. my oil pressure was fine and it ran smooth as ever. so i took it for a ride. the oil pressure was fine untill i starded geting on it then it did the same thing again

 

Rockers adjusted correctly?

 

i think so. could that affect oil pressure?

 

Well how low is your oil pressure, first?

 

between the red and the 1/4 mark. if i rev it a little it goes up to the 1/4 mark and if i let it idle it will go down into the red and the check guages light comes on

 

i just got done with my cam swap and mines at about 40-45 (little over the half way mark).

 

thats were mine is when i first start it. and thats were it was befor the head & cam swap

 

When you changed your springs, did you ever change the oil after a hundred miles or so? New valve train components are known to shed a little metal.

 

A lot of LT1s see around 20 (1/4). Cold startup is around 40-45.

 

Im having the exact same problem.. except I have had my cam and heads in for a long time... all I recently did was change the lifters out...

Would that affect the oil pressure???

 

if your having the same problem i would suggest parking it until you fix it. i blew my motor shortly after my last post

 

Holy crap, im scared now. My car is doing the ecact same thing. just got heads ported and installed the LT4 hot cam. Oil pressure is way low, but car iwont hardly idel either. I was thinking a PCM job was going to fix all of this. What do you think?

 

I had this problem a while back after I swapped cam/valvetrain.

I removed the factory oil cooler and the junk Fram oil filter and now everything is fine.