Got a new oil pan

[Fast01]

Ordered a new oil pan to gain some ground clearance and strayed from the usual choices. I went with a Kevco pan. Well, I received it yesterday and I couldn't be happier. It seems to be a real nice piece at a real nice price! It's internally baffled with trap doors to keep oil around the pick-up and the windsge tray is an integral part of the pan eliminating the need to "sandwich" the tray between the block and pan rail. It only holds 5 quarts, but the sump is only 5" deep....exactly what I needed to keep it of the ground on crappy New York roads and keep from potentially smashing the sump returning to earth from a wheelstand. With a big stroker I'm only turning 6000-6500 RPM, so I'm not worried about the capacity. Especially since I'm running a 1.5 quart accumulator. Just throwing it out as another option for us big block guys with clearance issues. I just wasn't comfortable with the pan sump hanging 2-3 inches below the k-frame.

 

[72Duster440]

Where did you get it from? That might be a good solution for me, my Moroso pan is only 3" off the ground.

 

[hangn0ut]

Hey that does look nice. Let me take a 'wag' at it. Right at $300. But if your pan is showing you can also make a skid plate to cover it up. Like the factory did. Nice pan you got there. Carefull with the accumulator. If you keep it charged all the time'ready to go' it will be working with cold oil. Never had one but I would be getting that oil up to temp somehow.

 

[Fast01]

Got the pan right from Kevco. Pan with screen was $250 and $45 for the pickup. I had a Moroso as well, the 7" sump was about 2 1\2" off the ground, which clearly is no good! I didn't want to spend over $400 for the Milodon road race pan and really wasn't thrilled with the oil control or windage tray arrangement on a stock type high capacity pan, so this seemed to fit the bill.
Hangnout, good call on the oil temp thing. The system I use drains back to the pan on shutdown and charges with oil from a t in the pressure sender on startup. Could put a ball valve in line and open it when the oil gets up to temp or just shut down and start back up to get some hot oil into it. Either way, there's gonna be a temperature difference between oil circulating through the motor and what's in the accumulator, but I can see where pumping straight up cold oil into the motor could potentially cause a problem.