Hello. I finally have some money flowing in and decided to change my cars plans away from the turbo for now and do some autocrossing. I just started college and don't want to deal with the down time of a turbo or deal with a blown engine and so on so ill wait till I get this part of my car done. ANYWAYS, I am a very paranoid about everything one of those being hard right turns causing oil stavation. I have had it happen to me once allready and scared me to death. I didnt find much about fixing the oilpan but they said to weld in some baffles. Could someone please explain what exactly they mean by baffles because I dont understand completly. A picture of a stock oil pan would be a big help so I can start to understand what I must do. My car is in storage 3 hours away from me so I can't simply take mine off and look at it so ill probably end up trying to find a used one and work on it here. Any info or suggestions would be great! sorry for the long post, sometimes I just start talking and dont stop for a while.
#27966, "RE: oil pan fix" In response to Reply # 0 Sep-16-05 05:33 AM by Kevin_Johnson
When you have the pan off you should replace your rod bearings. Every time you run zero oil pressure they become damaged to a greater or lesser degree and the damage is cummulative. Cheap and easy to do at that time.
Originally posted by nonamerat Hello. I finally have some money flowing in and decided to change my cars plans away from the turbo for now and do some autocrossing. I just started college and don't want to deal with the down time of a turbo or deal with a blown engine and so on so ill wait till I get this part of my car done. ANYWAYS, I am a very paranoid about everything one of those being hard right turns causing oil stavation. I have had it happen to me once allready and scared me to death. I didnt find much about fixing the oilpan but they said to weld in some baffles. Could someone please explain what exactly they mean by baffles because I dont understand completly. A picture of a stock oil pan would be a big help so I can start to understand what I must do. My car is in storage 3 hours away from me so I can't simply take mine off and look at it so ill probably end up trying to find a used one and work on it here. Any info or suggestions would be great! sorry for the long post, sometimes I just start talking and dont stop for a while. thanks again
#27967, "RE: oil pan fix" In response to Reply # 3
I've had my rod bearings get burned up twice because of the oiling issue with our cars and I just turned 70k, I've got Kevin's crank scraper and windage tray setup on my car now, the piece of mind is well worth the money http://www.crank-scrapers.com/prod01.html
#27969, "RE: oil pan fix" In response to Reply # 4
should I just replace the rod bearings or the main bearings also, I'm still in the learning process of all the internals of our engine and bearings are new to me....sorry for being stupid.
thanks a ton for the link, thats exactly what I was looking for!
#27972, "RE: oil pan fix" In response to Reply # 5 Sep-18-05 05:13 PM by techboy
Really, you should do both, however .... you're going to have to pull the motor out and pull the oil pump off and crank to get to the main bearings. You can do rod bearings in 20 minutes
EDIT: That baffled oil pan is awesome, first time I've seen that on 2gnt.
