Oil pans

[cudabob496]

Surprised they don't put more cooling fins on oil pans, as they do
on tranny pans?

[GoodysGotaCuda]

If I has to guess, it'd be cost and ground clearance driven. Going lower on an oil pan for fins is generally not an option. Going up to add fins reduces volume and drives a pickup change.

Putting fins on a cast aluminum trans pan is not all that expensive, one hit in tooling and minor cost in material thereafter. Cast aluminum oil pans could be of an advantage but are generally nonexistent in the aftermarket.

That being said, a simple oil cooler would be much more efficient.


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[brads70]

Generally the oil in a street driven car doesn't get hot enough to be an issue. On high sustained RPM race cars where it would be an issue they simply use a seperate cooler