The advantage of a fully fabricated oil pan is that the pan has been engineered and built with both fitment and performance in mind. Thicker pan rails with integral stroker notches built in, and often billet end caps are available to make the fitment and clearance characteristics ideal for high performance engines. If a fully fabricated oil pan has interference issues it is often an issue that falls outside the parameters of what the advertised application was. In most cases, block clearance occurs before oil pan clearance is required. Fully fabricated oil pans are less likely to have dipstick provisions, OEM chassis clearance notches, and the use of all OEM bolt hole locations for mounting. These features will be stated in the description of the oil pan, or can be modified when ordering. One of the biggest weapons in oil-control technology is the trap-door baffle within an oil pan. Unlike static baffles, trap-door baffles open and close to allow almost unrestricted one-way fluid flow, while effectively limiting flow in the opposite direction. The baffle assemblies are arranged in a way that allows oil to move from non-pickup areas to the sump pickup area, through the use of baffle doors that have wire hinges that open approximately 1/3 of the way (so the door can close quickly without allowing too much oil to pass through). The simplest of all the Moroso baffle designs is the Street/Strip and Drag Racing oil pan that only needs to control oil in two directions, forward and backward (under acceleration and deceleration). All of these oil pans incorporate a horizontal baffle that allows oil to move toward the pickup while accelerating, and prevents oil from leaving the pickup area while decelerating.
- Wet Kicked-Out Sump
- Fabricated Steel
- Trap Door Baffle
- 7qt.
- 8.25 deep
- For most chassis with Dart/Rocket Blocks
- Crank scraper
- Uni-directional screen windage tray
- Requires BBC Standard Height oil pump shaft (PN: 22080)
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