I've been helping/bugging with Milodon on a small block Mopar pro touring/high capacity-stock height/road race pans similar to the other road race pans they make. Like the big block Mopar one they offer, pn 31580. Many people use that big block road race pan on their HiPo street cars to get a pan that does not go past their K-member and get smashed, but still has increased capacity and advanced oil control. This pan is actually a little shorter than even a stock pan for ultimate low ground clearance situations!!
It just took about 2 years of needling Milodon to do this, so I want to get the word out and support thier efforts. I see a lots of lowered cars with deep pans just waiting to get smashed loose all their oil.
These 318/340 and 360 pans just came out last Friday and available NOW!:
http://www.milodon.com/oil-pans/road-race-oil-pans.asp One of the requirements I felt for this new pan was fitting A-bodies as well as B and E bodies. And the toughest requirement was fitting the super-duper tight 73-76 A-body spool K-member. The spool motor mounts create a wall of K-member right down the bottom of the pan. So we tested the pan extensively with a 73-76 K-member with full steering linkage. TTI headers and header that go behind the steering linkage will not be a fitment problem. Just fitting the pan to E and B bodies would have been easy, but the A’s would be left out.
Of note: The current issue Mopar Muscle Magazine 427cid stroker small block by AndyF (AR Engineering) was tested in Tim Werner’s red 68 Valiant hitting 130+ at Portland International Raceway’s road course. The Valiant and motor could keep up with new Z06 Corvettes until motor’s new custom Charlies oil pan lost oil pressure and they had to go home early. AndyF was about to make pan himself, but I told him to wait for the new Milodon SB pan and one is on its way to Oregon right now.
I have also ran dry on oil in my Barracuda with a just a stock pan at the track. My car was not anywhere near as fast as Tim’s 68 Valiant. Stock small block pans have NO BAFFLING whatsoever. Most big block Mopar HP and a lot of non HP pans have some baffling front and rear. None for any small block, ever. My new 416 stroker SB WILL have this new Milodon SB pan.
Point is, any somewhat serious pro touring or suspension mod car you should think about protecting the motor with a baffled pan designed for high sustained G’s.
Any well thought out additional baffling will help a stock small block pan. But there is a glass ceiling to that. And it’s not very high. The Milodon pan will take you to the limits of a full on vintage road race car and have you covered and covered for future mods.
Now, this pan is a serious handling, road race piece. Some of the features of this NEW pan:
- Side pods for 6 quarts of oil
- FIVE trap door/gates
- 3 braking deacceleration gates to keep oil around the sump under hard braking
- 2 lateral G gates
- fully baffled sump for complete oil control
- false right angle wall at back of sump to keep oil from very rear of pan. Also allows more centerlink clearance for possible lowered motors.
- fully TIG welded construction
- decades of SCCA road race proven sump design features in this pan.
- Made right here in USA
This pan should not need the band aid of an accusump reserve system. Unless of course there is a weak link somewhere else in the oiling system. I know $450 is a lot for an oil pan. But look at a $200 drag race pan with the bucket welded under them. Then look at all pictures I took of the gates, ledges, baffles, custom sump, weld quality, construction quality of this Road Race pan and I think you will understand some of the $$$ differences.
These new small block pans will be on display at Fall Fling October 30, 2010 and SEMA
