wsa111":3uq0ykn1 said:
Here is a home made street pan with baffles & a crankshaft scraper.
You need as Bubba said an oil pan with some of the above plus side extensions for extra capacity & control of oil on corners.
Speedway Motors has some nice side extensions that just need to be welded on.
You should see if you can find one of the Aussi pans Mike imported about 5 years ago. He no longer offers them.
Nice sump.
I liked Peugoet Bills too
Since all Holden Red/Blue and Black L6 engines from 1963 to 1985 and all Ford Falcon I6 engines run the same 4.08" bore spacing, and the Holden ran a bigger 2.25" stroke crank with 12 counterweights as apposed to Fords 4, 10 or 12 counterweight item depending on year, interchanability is pretty close.
Fords I6 cranks were always designed to reduce metal use, but eventually, Ford found that the superior 12 counterweight smooth running EF crank from 1993 to 1998 was better off replaced with a bigger 2.65" main bearing 10 counterwieght crank for the EFII/AU and BA/BF/FG's.
Old holdens with the Canadian forged 179 HP and 149 cranks were good at pulling the vibrations out at high revs, and helped logivity.
A Fox body isolates a lot of NVH, so you won't realise how rough a stock 3m cast iron 3.3 crankl is.
After the 186 engines, Holden downagraded to a cast iron crank for the 202/3.3 L6, but in high performance Holdens since the 1973 Bathurst winning LC XU1 GTR have run a custom steel crank, and in 1980, they added 12 counterweights to the old cast iron crank, and got an amazing improvment inrev range and smoothness. That crank also made more oil windage, but the sump on the Commodore was upgraded to improve oil flow before the better crank was productionized. So a crank scaper and crank/sump pacakge is an art of compromise.
The 1980-1984 2850 cc 173 ran the previous crank, and it was a very harsh engine with its 4 counterweight cast iron crank, despite a short stroke, so Holden proved the worth of the 12 counterweight crank.
If you get enough people together, you can get a steel crank made for any Ford of Holden, in any counterweighting configuration, and that takes a lot of the harshenss of two of the old cast iron crank 202 engines prounounced 4200 and 5300 rpm Holden harmonic periods out of the engine, moving it up to an rpm point where your not running into it.
Back to those sumps.
A factory copy of the auxillary sump on the 4.0 Ford Territory or any 2003 to data Falcon Bara 183/195/240/270/315 DOHC engine employs a sump baffle and scraper.
http://www.gmh-torana.com.au/forums/top ... -dyno-202/
The Aussie guys are racing there XU1 GTR red, blue and balck L6's to 8000 rpm without dry sumping.
They run the 4.0 liter DOHC BA Falcon Bara 183 sump splashgard in some cases.