Oil Pans
Oil Pans I recently purchased a 2002 LS6 shortblock from TPiS. Obviously it came with the corvette bat-wing style pan. The pan will not clear the subframe of the 87 Supra I am putting it into. In fact it's a couple inches from clearing. I will be going with an F-Body pan rather than cutting into my subframe. I have two questions on the matter. How well does an F-Body oil pan perform under hard cornering, does it have decent baffles? Also, is there any demand for the corvette oil pan? Is it worth anything decent?
A long left-hand sweeper can still take out one of these engines as the oil climbs the right side of the pan. There is some baffling in the f-body pan, but no trap-doors or anything like that.
The right side is more open than the left side where the baffle is gapped around the oil level sensor. I put an old knock sensor/valley cover seal there to help close that gap. I also lowered the pickup to within 1/2" of the bottom of the pan. (if you go this route, make sure you don't get the tube in a bind with the oil pump)
An extra 1-1.5 quarts of oil help.
The vette pan appears to interfere with the k-member on the f-body cars, so it won't have much demand.
The right side is more open than the left side where the baffle is gapped around the oil level sensor. I put an old knock sensor/valley cover seal there to help close that gap. I also lowered the pickup to within 1/2" of the bottom of the pan. (if you go this route, make sure you don't get the tube in a bind with the oil pump)
An extra 1-1.5 quarts of oil help.
The vette pan appears to interfere with the k-member on the f-body cars, so it won't have much demand.
