Opinions on Oil Accumulators / Accusumps & electric water pumps

I have a related question: what is the manual control valve on an Accusump for?  Is it just for priming prior to starting?  They don't clearly say in the sales literature, and all I can picture is reaching over and adjusting the valve when diving into a corner, which, while exciting, really doesn't seem practical.

Really how hard could it be to make something like this from junk yard parts?

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/MOR-63750/?rtype=10

What if instead of having it turn the water pump, I just make it turn the alternator, and then hook the alternator to the electric motor?  Infinite power!

As soon as the perpetual motion machine is complete the oil company's will disappear him.

We threw a rod 19 laps into Arse-freeze, so I'm working hard to fit an Accusump into the budget for Sears Pointless.  I'm doing it the opposite way from Spank, though: selling pieces from a crashed parts car to get its engine down to zero value.  I have a used Accusump that should fit within my residual allowance...I hope.

$150

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Canton-R … 5adf14994b

And it's got gauge on it! I seem to recall reading that gauges are exempt from budget. PLUS If there's no oil pressure, the other oil gauge won't work. Gotta put in an accusump to make sure my gauge works!

I actually took a bunch of pics before stripping the car out and returning it to street trim and selling it for a very hefty profit, so my bases are covered (if I actually cared about penalty laps).

The car I'm trying to make run reportedly has some ridiculously low oil capacity and a horrific lean angle, so to last more than 1.5 laps I've considered trying to put the accusump in.

Or, once again, you could avoid revving the living piss out of your engines!

We found an accusump from a race car that had blown up so it was full of metal and other such internal metal parts.  We sent it to the manufacturer to get rebuilt and had a nice working accusump for less than $50 (can't remember exact price as that was three years ago).  Been running it since and has saved a motor in our car at least twice. if not more.

depending on your engines oil pan design...you might be better off with an internal solution...build you own baffles and trap doors to help keep the pickup covered in the corners.....  Depending on your exact car, there might even be earlier-later oil pan designs that help.....this is what we did in the 928..we retrograded the oil pan to an earlier version that cost almost nothing and the engine still runs.....vs the stock oil pan that blew the engine in 1 race....an accusump probably would have saved the 1st engine....but there wasn't room in the budget either