oil pan 4
11-11-2004, 10:51 PM
What should I do to the stock oil pan to keep the oil form getting aeraited at high rpms?
Also I want to keep the oil in the pan and away form the combustion chambers.
I know that air in the oil is no good for any thing and means spun rod bearings.
The problem with a windage tray is that I will have studs and I can't realy bolt a windage tray to the mains on this engine.
How should I put it in there? braze weld?
It is only going to be a 7000rpm engine at the most engine but I want it to last long time.
Lonnie Pavtis
11-11-2004, 11:01 PM
They make studs with a smaller diameter extension to bolt the windage tray to. These are common.
A good tray will cost at least $60, but I still recommend a good pan. The lack of oil baffles in the pan contributes to the oil problem under acceleration that the tray will not eliminate. The pickup is toward the front of the sump & the oil is at the rear under acceleration. The tray keeps more oil in the pan, but may not cure the problem.
oil pan 4
11-12-2004, 04:41 AM
I don't have the money for a dry sump system, would be nice.
For a 3.4L 60*-V6 oil pan choices: stock or make one, don't feel like making an oil sump, I don't have the welder for it. Yet.
As far as Main studs go I'm luckey I can even get studs.
I could braze bafels in the bottem of the pan, but the way 1 gallon of oil sits in a V6 camaro pan and where the pick up is it won't be to much of a problem.
The pump pick up has great coverage.
It will have a bad windage problem that's for sure.
I know becasue I used a spare V6 oil pan as an oil drain bucket back home many times.
Now with a SBC it's different now I never dumped 6qt. in a SBC pan but it looks like it would have less windage but more sloshing probs.
SStrokerAce
11-12-2004, 03:02 PM
I would mark up a stock pan for what you wanted and have a place like Stef's or Jeff Johnsons Billet Fab make a pan for you that includes a windage tray, that's going to be the most effective way to get what you want in terms of the pan.
Bret