Thread: Oil pickup

Ha good point, but I could see it helping if our oil pans were to get dented. That way you wouldn't have to worry about the oil pick up cracking the block.

if the pans dent, the pickup will bend before it ever cracks the block. None of the VE or DE or DET motors Ive worked on have had that support in it however.

one difference i see is on the highports there are different types as well. The one you pictured has just the ovaled opening with no cuts in the sides, The one you pictured is very very easy to fully block with a bent pan, The newer designs have slots on the edges of the oval that go upwards away from the pan making it impossible to completely block stopping oil supply, I have several at my house i can take a picture of.

Those ones suck, because even a slightly bent pan can lead to engine failure, and either way you should bend your pan back out if its even slightly dented whether you have a newer design or the old design.

Thats actually from a RWD motor. S13 IIRC. Just was curious if we could benefit from this type of thing in the FWD crowd.

EDIT** Theres a few more replies in here than I thought. I hit the end button taking me to the end of the page and replied to the last post.

No joke. That engine actually had a bashed in oil pan (it's out of a junkyard car).

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yeah thats what happens, thats exactly why my buddies rwd sr had zero oil pressure when he got it, he went ahead and did a full gasket swap including headgasket and new oil pump (i did the work) and then put the same bashed up pan back on without me knowing it and started it up and wow still zero oil pressure. I immediately looked under the car and saw the pan and was like you idiot, haha, took the pan back off, banged it out and btw there was a nice deep oval indent from the perfectly sealed off pickup tube on the inside of the pan.

Fired it up and wow perfect oil pressure. haha, i swear sometimes people amaze me, lol. Neways ive commonly seen the ones without the slots on the sides in the rwd, all the ones ive pulled from fwd de's have the slots in the side to keep it from totally sealing off if the pan gets smashed in. Either way keep the pan where its supposed to be and you will more than likely never have spun bearing problems.