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If you look at the mexican hydralic longblocks they come standard with the filter pump covers. The best way to go is get your case full flowed, plug the outlet side of your new oil pump, and use Gene Berg's pressure relief full flow pump cover. Get the one for use with late buses. It has the corect 40 degree outlet fitting. This cover interfers slightly with the rear hanger but not the shroud. You'll have to remove some of the hanger. The cover is about $59 retail. This way you can put a remote filter anywhere you want. Also you can use copper lines and fittings if you don't want to use rubber. And if money permits an external oil cooler! Take alook at Toby's setup for a picture of what i'm talking about. Off hand i can't remember any thing bad about hydraulic systems, but then again your going to push them to their limits! ;) Eric 1968 VW Blue Fastback -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yeah I would run the hydraulics to the limit. I have never had problems with hydraulics on my other non VW. My cooling system is added in leu of the regular, even though quite efficient, Stock VW cooler. I already have a 92 pass mesa cooler with a nine inch fan with a inline filter. The lines are 900 lbs pressure lines and the mesa cooler has a burst strength of 300 + lbs, my oil filter that is inline are always the racing type that has a higher burst strength. The pressure releif was spring enhanced only at the cooler and not at the regular releif valve, this way I always have oil flowing through the cooler and filter as the full flow intends and never had a blown filter, lines, leaks, or any oil light on , even towards the end of my cam gear grindup. never any large particles in my my oil, just microscopic. Never ferrous fuzz noted on my magnets for 50,000 miles, ever. I think I did something right. I am just one of those paranoid reluctant guys who likes big flow pumps and keeping the grinder off the my mounting bar. I had an ugly incident once when I ran over a boulder, I bent the mount bar, I shutter to think that if it were weaker my engine would have been dragging. I was too embarrassed to repeat this tory to the list as well as my sump destruction off road story at the time. This is when I tore my tranny mount. I do not know how evryone feels about what I did with the oiling but I feel that I have done something right for me without the grinding supports away . I destroy things engine must have it's defenses intact. I am stil thinking about quiet hydraulics but waiting for some money to fall from the sky. LEON MARTINEZ 1969 SQUAREBACK EFI/AUTO SAN DIEGO AND TIJUANA