need input on 318 build
Yup, that's the pan I was talking about. It's not really a road race pan per se, the baffling is pretty much all front to rear instead of side to side. But it would be easy to add a lateral baffle. It'd be a big improvement over stock though. The 6qt capacity would be better for the sustained RPM's, and the baffling it does have will help keep the pickup submerged. Plus it has a crank scraper that you can tweak to improve the oil shedding off the crank. And if you've got cheap long tube headers, they will still be the lowest point on the car.
Milodon's road race pan (31590) is the best out there, but it also costs well over twice as much as the Kevko. You can see why here though
I did have to do a little tweaking with the Kevko oil pickup to run it with a windage tray and set it up level to the bottom of the pan, but it was a pretty easy fix.
For the price the Kevko is hard to beat, even if it needs a little fine tuning. I forget who it was, but someone that ordered a Kevko pan recently called them up and paid an extra $50 to have it TIG welded instead of MIG welded. The MIG welding looks a little lumpy, so the $50 to have it TIG welded would improve the finish quite a bit. And it'd still cost less than half of what the Milodon costs.
Maybe one of the engine builders can chime in on rings, I would think that a moly ring from any of the major manufacturer's would be fine.
Yup, that's the pan I was talking about. It's not really a road race pan per se, the baffling is pretty much all front to rear instead of side to side. But it would be easy to add a lateral baffle. It'd be a big improvement over stock though. The 6qt capacity would be better for the sustained RPM's, and the baffling it does have will help keep the pickup submerged. Plus it has a crank scraper that you can tweak to improve the oil shedding off the crank. And if you've got cheap long tube headers, they will still be the lowest point on the car.
Milodon's road race pan (31590) is the best out there, but it also costs well over twice as much as the Kevko. You can see why here though
I did have to do a little tweaking with the Kevko oil pickup to run it with a windage tray and set it up level to the bottom of the pan, but it was a pretty easy fix.
For the price the Kevko is hard to beat, even if it needs a little fine tuning. I forget who it was, but someone that ordered a Kevko pan recently called them up and paid an extra $50 to have it TIG welded instead of MIG welded. The MIG welding looks a little lumpy, so the $50 to have it TIG welded would improve the finish quite a bit. And it'd still cost less than half of what the Milodon costs.
Maybe one of the engine builders can chime in on rings, I would think that a moly ring from any of the major manufacturer's would be fine.