The Oil Pan Thread

[Digitalwave]

I hope I never have to contribute to this thread. **Knocks on wood**

With cut springs and how low your car is I wouldn't be surprised.

[Schieldrop]

I hope I never have to contribute to this thread. **Knocks on wood**

I for one am ready to welcome you to the club...

[B Rod]

With cut springs and how low your car is I wouldn't be surprised.

I'm going to be raising the engine a bit soon, so that'll help. But if Rusty can make it across country as low as it sits, I should be okay.

I for one am ready to welcome you to the club...

But I don't wanna! haha

[Schieldrop]

But I don't wanna! haha

Hehe! I fear that it'll be colateral damage even if you raise your engine.
A friend of mine has a trackday E30 M3 that sits criminally low. He likes to drive it to and from trackdays, and since norwegian roads suck ass he combated the problem by going the dry sump ruite

[Tuck&Poke]

whoa, i would love to do that, probably hella expensive though

[Schieldrop]

whoa, i would love to do that, probably hella expensive though

Yeah, it is, but the cost isn't the biggest issue.
I helped him getting it installed, and let me tell you it is a pain in the f**kin ass.
Cos unless you get a hold of a genuine racing item, if they even make that for the type of engine you might have, you just get a reservoir, tubes, pump, control unit, etc. And you have to set it up and make it work on your own. And fabricate your own plate to swap for the original "bucket" sump.
But on the plus side, his engine has never starved on oil since installing the dry sump, and his entire sump is now located above the crossmember.

[rubadub]

On my third pan in the Jetta, first one had a hairline crack around the transmission edge, second one had gaping hole right in front of drain plug. I'm sitting at 24" from fender to ground (not even low). FML

This has me curious. What year Jetta and what engine?

I'm still safe at 23.25...though Hillsboro Rd. nearly killed me last night during the storm. Damn construction.

[lespaulman16]

This has me curious. What year Jetta and what engine?

I'm still safe at 23.25...though Hillsboro Rd. nearly killed me last night during the storm. Damn construction.

03, Knoxville roads are notoriously bad because of incessant road construction. I busted cracked the first from tons of small impacts and the second one died because a concrete block fell off the truck in front and there was NOTHING I could do save taking out the car in the incoming lane. It destroyed my passenger side sub-frame as well :O

I'll post pics when I get around to hosting them.

[jpod999]

Did that when I was doing some rain drifting around a roundabout. I ran out of skill and bumped into the curb. Didn't realize it was borked until about 2 minutes after than when I was a mile down the road. The stain in that parking lot is still there. I rock a skidplate now because I don't want to go through that again, luckily the M42 is 2 piece and doing the bottom one is hella easy.

[notloEnuf]

On my third pan in the Jetta, first one had a hairline crack around the transmission edge, second one had gaping hole right in front of drain plug. I'm sitting at 24" from fender to ground (not even low). FML

can you say wack ass suspension?

[BimmerDawg]

I'd prolly be on numer 15 if it weren't for my skid plate:

[TRiCC]

hmmm where did you get that plate?

[curtis]

cherry popped.

[SeanDub]

Damn Curtis, Where were you?

[BimmerDawg]

hmmm where did you get that plate?

Guy on r3v sells them. www.raceskids.com, IIRC.