Oil Pedestal Adapter...
 

Where is a reliable place to pick up a quality oil pedestal adapter? I know there used to be several merchants providing them, but they all seem to have either gone away or lost their reputation for reliability.

Where did you guys get yours?

(I'm posting this in the General Rotary section because, despite my interest being purely for a 3rd gen, the adapters are rather universal)

I got mine from Prosport. It was cheap and has more than enough ports on it. Quality isn't bad. Machined well etc.

The newer style that RB and Mazdatrix sell are nice.

I've got an older RESpeed (I think) I won't be using. It's been painted silver.

Back in the day I called Billy from ReSpeed to ask of he would be willing to do a one off FD pedestal without the banjo fitting, we pit our heads together and instead a welded on -10 AN.... The very first one is still on my FC....

Yeah, I'm looking for something that I can plug some extra sensors into for the new ECU.

ReSpeed has gone to crap as far as I know. RB sells one and you can get a sandwich one like Prosport sells. I'd suggest getting a full replacement one if you can (e.g. RB), but most people don't have issues with the sandwich ones and they're cheaper.

Thanks Jack, I'll have to look into that.

I was just looking at that one, and it seems that RB's site says they are incompatible with the FD due to clearance and fitting restrictions :(

Yeah, I was looking to them initially, but it seems like they've become unreliable (see Gunny's "Bad Guys" thread) in terms of delivering what they've been paid for.

If it weren't for the clearance issues noted on the FD, I'd go with the newer style RB/MT piece. Stay away from ReSpeed - word is out that they are not delivering what folks have paid for these days.

The one downside I've heard on the Prosport sandwich style is that they eventually leak. Reason is the sandwich design, which retains the stock oil filter pedestal which seals to the Prosport adapter with basically one big O-ring/oil filter seal. That seal will either break down or loosen up after numerous oil filter changes, resulting in a messy and potentially catastrophic leak.

I don't see how the Prosport adapter would work and the RB would not. They're both sandwich types. The Prosport is universal in size. The o-ring on the bottom is designed to work with a variety of filter base sizes and the Mazda filter is on the smaller end of the spectrum. I've had them leak on the Mazda filter base while they seem to work well with larger filter bases.

I assumed the new RB design completely replaced the stock pedestal piece like the old (block style) design did, and bolts up to the engine and seals with the two O-rings just like the stock pedestal piece.

RB
http://www.racingbeat.com/images/ite...x280/11803.jpg

Prosport
http://prosportgauges.com/images/pro...apterplate.jpg

FWIW, used an RB pedestal in an FD a few months ago and it worked great. No idea why RB says it won't work.

Racingbeat uses the large or tall style filters not the OEM. I ran the RB in my Fc with the mega oil pressure regulator with no problems with the tall filter.

Word at DGRR from the guys over at FFE was that they are about to start production on a new Oil Pedestal. The plastic model they had on hand looks very much like the RE Speed one that I bought used.

So good news!! Hopefully we'll have a reliable supplier soon that doesn't require sandwich plates ^_^