When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.
Has anyone considered dropping the pickup lower in the pan? I still need to assemble my front case and pickup to the loaner pan I got to see where it sits normally but if the sump is being altered I'd think it'd be advantageous to drop the floor of the sump and the pickup an equal amount as well.
lowering the sump flor will give you extra oil capacity but will do little for the main problem and that is oil drain back to sump in right hand corners.. of course, with extra oil capacity you have more time untill you get problerms with oil pressure..
I don't know that I'd want the pan to sit any lower. When I was test fitting ours, there wasn't a whole lot of room to drop it, especially if you run a splitter or undertray. Then there's the issues of curbs, of course.
i mean if the pan fits above the stock undertray, idk that you have that much to worry about unless you've got some seriously steep driveways that you are scraping the undertray all the time
So I threw together my oil front case, pickup tube and a pan. Has anyone measured how close the pickup comes to the bottom of the pan? On my mock up setup the pickup is nearly pressed against the floor of the pan.
Can't really get any great pics of it unfortunately.
If this is how close it is from the factory, that's kind of alarming. I would think 1/4-1/2" would be acceptable. It feels like it's under 1/8" right now.
But the closer it is, the longer it picks up oil. 