Fins on Underside of Oil Pan
 

would welding some fins on the underside of the oil pan would lower your oil temps? does anyone have any experience with this? i think ive seen it on a v8.

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haha
probably a tad

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investing in an oil cooler would be easier/cheaper.

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oil coolers are like 30 bucks on ebay

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Fins on the pan is an old-school hot rod v8 trick. It'll help a little bit if you have road clearance like those old cars used to have, but if you've lowered the car quite a bit and have any kind of bumper lip extending down it pretty much negates the purpose. A remote mount oil cooler is a much better idea anyway.

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But then the price for the remote mount, block adapter, hoses, radiator gets pretty pricey. I say try it out...what do you have to lose?

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a very nice oil cooler set up can be had ffor under 100 bucks

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Very nice foir $100? Nope

To do it properly and efficiently Im sure you $250+ if you use the right compression fitting and braided line and not a 1/2 ass oil cooler

I dunno how much affect fins on the pan would do, You mean like 1/2" fins or somethin going from front to back? Technically I guess it works, but I dont know ho much, and my oil pan aint but 2.5" off the ground anyways....

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You will most effective heat disipation with aluminium. but the time you will have invested in cleaning fabing and welding is far to time consuming and less effective than a external oil cooler

get fittings from Aces stainless or WOFSCO

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doesn't the S2000 or some other honda have a finned pan?

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fin would strengthen the oil pan also, if you were to scrape it.
no doubt an oil cooler would be more effective, but if you have a free afternoon and you were going to change your oil any way why not do it.
it would look rad
help dissapate heat
i can't see it taking more than 3-4 hours and cost much if you have spare aluminum lying around to do everything.

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here's a factory piece off of some older Audi's
http://www.mswanson.com/~wiz/Vortex/020.JPG

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=2284973
http://www.audischrauber.de/Projekt_2/audi_80_gte.html

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Notice the pan is made out of aluminum for maximum heat transfer. Steel pans don't tend to transfer heat too well.

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I'd like to see this "nice" oil cooler. Routing back into the oilpan is useless and retard if you thought of setting it up this way.

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Oh ya I forgot stock honda pans arent aluminum!

Havent had one in years

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i'd personally be kind of afraid to run an aluminum pan on a lowered car, esp where I live. Knoxville roads are potty as ----.

aluminum + impact = :'(

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not true, i saw an rsx type S with an aluminum oil pan today, although i think it was an 04 model

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Ummm you ever look to see what kind of pan comes on the y5/y7/y8 engines? ::) :1

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10 bux saya you warp it and it never seals right :D

i big improvement would be this http://store.summitracing.com/partde...5&autoview=sku stock pan but in aluminum with a baffle and bungs

they also have a 5.5qt version...

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i was gona say i think my y8 had an aluminum pan. d series ftw again

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y7 is steel, y8 is Al, not sure on y5

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y5 is just gangster

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aluminum paper and ziploc bags

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y whatever..I'm just saying one of those ------- y series engines has a ------- aluminium oil pan. Wait...I had a y7 in my hatch that had a AL oil pan. Pulled it straight from my buddy's bone stizzock 97 del sol. Not to mention another y7 I had. That also had a AL oil pan. Now why someone would go through the hassle of swapping those on is beyond me but they were AL pans.

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Only the Y5 and Y8 came with the aluminum oil pans.