Thread: Oil Pan modding!!

been playing around with the oil pan on my ve build.

Havnt got to the upper tray yet.


enjoy.



Heres my little bit of sump modding.


The factory sump has an excellent top tray to stop oil splashign around and escaping the lower pan.

I will be addding a steel crank scraper to wipe excess oil off the crank. Kevin Johnson from the US is making one up - hopefully it will arrive by christmas.

Kevin Johnson Crank Scrapers here.


I will be cutting the lower buldge out of the pan - this buldge is right next to the oil pickup - not preferable for a tack setup with oil splashing around the pan!



You can see the steel plate that helps stop oil from escaping the lower pan.





Heres the gay bump in the lower pan. This bump is there for acces to the trasnmission on auto FWD SR's. This will be cut out and squared off.











Heres where i am putting my sump baffles.

Im putting the baffles at the front of the lower pan. Under heavy brakes it will help trap oil near where the pickup sits, but on acceleration - any oil that has gotten past it, can flow to the back of the pan - back around to the pickup.

You will notice there is a small lower baffle along the floor on a 45 degree angle from the main baffle - this is to slow oil moving away from the pickup - pushing it upwards towards that centre steel plate shown above that covers the whole of the lower sump.

Cut out the hump today.






Had to cut out a 1 piece 100mm x 100mm piece of steel. It has to be one piece for extra strength. If i welded dual pieces in an squared them off i would have issues with strngth if anything hit the sump.

After about 30mins of malleting, and needing - it fits great.



Ground the area around the patch for welding. Has to be good wide grounds, i want good penetration through both sheets and through the bottom for dealing and strength.




Jigged up and ready to be tacked.





All lined up - now to start fill welds.






Good penetration to the underside - will finsih the underside welds tomorrow night.

Nice work! Have you experienced oil starvation on the track? I'm not aware of any transverse SR's having oil pickup problems under high cornering g's

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interesting..... cant wait to see how it works out

Your Nuts

Havnt experienced oil starvationg, but if i plan on running up near 10,000rpm i dont want to risk it coming out of a fish hook

Why do you think im nuts lol?

Cause .. you could have just hammered the big buldge out.

Several of the cars that ran on the track at the convention in Savannah had pickup problems and blew up the motors there. Baffles look like a really good idea. Mike