• but what does ‘dual stage’ mean to the layperson?

    Two pumps stacked on one output drive from the exhaust cam, first stage scavenges the rear of the head, second stage scavenges the front of the head.

    Under low load conditions the second stage is going to be returning very little to nothing- under heavy braking and/or turning left it’s going to be working hard. The second stage is absent on the standard (single stage) design, and you are on your own with the oil pooling issue.

  • I’m not sure that dual-stage is the correct terminology (although that may be what Porsche use) - it sounds as if you have a parallel setup (2 suction, 2 discharge) whereas multi stage is series, to obtain higher pressures at the output.

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