Kevko oil pan for 360 are they good, bad or ugly?

[femtnmax]

Forum search has limited info. I wrote one forum member that used one but no response.  Anyone have feedback on the quality, etc?

[Jim]

I installed one on my 360 based 410 stroker. Haven't run the motor yet, but the fit and installation went just fine. Need to use their pick-up too.

Finish on the pan is pretty sloppy. Cheap lacquer black paint, and the welds aren't pretty. Strictly a functional piece for sure.

I like it because it has good oil control (lots of baffles) and addition capacity without hanging way down below the K-member. Budget friendly too compared to the offerings from Milodon and others.

[mrob]

Here's my 2cents after having installed one on my 340 stroker motor in the 73 Cuda:

1) Had a small oozing leak from one of the welds which would leave a quarter-sized stain on the garage floor. Of course, it didn't leak on the dyno. It had to leak after I put the motor back into the car. Since I didn't want to pull the motor again, I cleaned the weld and put some JB Weld on it. So far so good, but it shouldn't have leaked in the first place.

2) I spent quite a bit of time adjusting the built-in crank scraper hoping for a few more HP because of less windage. Guess what, didn't find any extra power on the dyno.

3) The drainplug on the Kevko pan is on the left-hand side towards the front of the pan. I think it was put there because of the trap doors in the pan (keeps the oil in the sump under acceleration). Unfortunately, that also means you have to jack up the whole car to drain the oil. You can't just jack up the front of the car. Some of the oil is trapped in the sump.

4) You have to recalibrate your stock dipstick because of the extra pan capacity.

Looking back, I probably should have just welded some baffles in my stock pan.

[EFI-Cuda]

I have a Kevko pan with no problems.  I was going to use my 360's oil pan after I stroked the motor to 408, but found out that the 4 inch stroker crank would be spining in the engine's oil at the bottom of the pan.  The stock pan isn't deep enough to prevent this from happening with the longer stroke of the 408's crank.  I got the Kevko because it was deep enough to keep oil off of the crank and it didn't hang down below the K frame like I've seen with other aftermarket oil pans.

[Jim]

How many quarts you guys running in your Kevko pans?

[the_engineers]

Why would you have to recalibrate your dipstick? Wouldn't "full" still be "full"?

[V02Barracuda]

I put a Kevko on my 340 stroker.  It's a good pan.  I agree that the finish sucked but who cares?  I stripped it, prepped it and painted it engine color.  I really don't think anyone would just take that thing out of the box and slap it on the motor.

As for changing the oil, simply jack up the car, (use a shallow catch pan) pull the plug and lower the car back down.  Once it's drained, jack it back up and reinstall the plug. 

[Jim]

Why would you have to recalibrate your dipstick? Wouldn't "full" still be "full"?

Yes and no. With a stroker crank you might get into some windage/foaming issues at stock oil level. With stock stroke, the factory "FULL" mark should be find.