Trans Pan
Trans Pan Sooner or later this winter I am going to be pulling the engine and trans to do upgrades. I was looking at adding a deeper pan to my 4l60e. The only question I have is does anyone know how much, inch wise, different pans add to the bottom of the trans? I will be lowering the car in the near future (hopefully koni/strano) and the trans is the last thing I want to catch on speedbumps, etc. I was looking at silverado pans, tci, and b&m. Thanks a lot.
Yeah thats why I was wondering about how much they actually add to the bottom of the pan. None of the listings actually say the dimensions or how much they add to the bottom of the pan.
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Sooner or later this winter I am going to be pulling the engine and trans to do upgrades. I was looking at adding a deeper pan to my 4l60e. The only question I have is does anyone know how much, inch wise, different pans add to the bottom of the trans? I will be lowering the car in the near future (hopefully koni/strano) and the trans is the last thing I want to catch on speedbumps, etc. I was looking at silverado pans, tci, and b&m. Thanks a lot.
I did have Strano lowering springs on the front but removed them because the Spohn TA was too low. I might consider re-installing the springs again if I replace the Spohn TA with a tunnel mount cross-member TA.
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I have put about 4k (4 years driving) on the car with the Koni SA's on the lowest perch on the shock. There are no marks at all on the pan. But the car is not a daily driver.
However, you can see where the Spohn TA has/will scrape (high center).
What might bite any item on the underside of a car is city road construction where the manholes are exposed with all concrete and/or asphalt excavated aways from the manholes or extremely high speed bumps.
Note: I recall my Performabuilt Lvl III came with a deep pan. I think it was/is about an inch shallower than the TCI. I didn't keep it so can't measure.
Maybe Frank will chime in with dimensions.
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I have a deep pan on my car I think it holds 2-4 extra quarts my car is slammed it sits lower than stano springs so the pan sits pretty low but I have never had any issues with my deep pan I scrape my Y-pipe quite often but not my pan.
The factory truck pan is about an inch or so deeper than the factory fbody shallow pan. We use the truck pan on all level 5 builds and to date I do not recall ever getting any complaints about it hitting. With that being said I think you would be fine with using one. Vince
