2012 Lexus LFA User Guide - Page 4
2012 Lexus LFA Manual
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Dry sump system In order to lower the center of gravity, the LFA adopts a dry sump system which positions the oil tank separately from the engine itself and does away with a conventional oil pan, enabling the location of the engine to be closer to the ground. Simultaneously, the center of gravity is further lowered and the yaw moment of inertia is further reduced by placing heavy objects such as the oil pump on both sides of the lower back end of the engine. As high dimension driving performance was achieved due to these engineering techniques and the packaging of the Nürburgring Package, a lubrication system that could handle up to 2G of lateral acceleration was required. 34
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Dry sump system
In order to lower the center of gravity, the LFA adopts a dry sump system which
positions the oil tank separately from the engine itself and does away with a conven-
tional oil pan, enabling the location of the engine to be closer to the ground.
Simultaneously, the center of gravity is further lowered and the yaw moment of iner-
tia is further reduced by placing heavy objects such as the oil pump on both sides of
the lower back end of the engine.
As high dimension driving performance was achieved due to these engineering
techniques and the packaging of the Nürburgring Package, a lubrication system
that could handle up to 2G of lateral acceleration was required.