Like the title says, anyone running a oil pan with a kick out? If so were there any clearance/fitment issues. Also any take on it's effectivness?

 

jules....go with a c6 pan.

 

Curious, what is a kickout exactly

 

Pat what's the c6 pan look like or what makes it different from our pans? The ZR1 pan is a dry sump I believe right, is the c6 dry or wet?

1LOW4x4, a kick out is an additional chamber that would be found on the passenger side of the pan. It reduces windage effect that a crank see's on a typical oil pan. When the crank rotates it slings oil in a clockwise direction, the kickout gives the oil a place to accumulate and drain back into the sump as apposed to being "churrned" by the counter weights. The more oil mist/vapor/dropplets that are suspended in the crankcase the more resistance it causes the crank to have to fight through i.e. windage effect. A properly set-up crankcase can net a significant gain in hp as well as more efficient lubrication system.

 

While I do agree with you in principal....what kind of motor are you building? New "SPOOLIN" class in NASCAR?

 

the c6 is wet sump and its chambered.

 

Its a damn truck just use the damn truck pan and quit whining!!!

 

Didnt know the truck pan was a pile of

 

LOL, never even considered a KO pan for a truck

 

Wow, didn't know asking about oil pans would hit such a nerve with you guys. Way to lead the charge Brain, I guess making a truck handle the twisties makes more sense than improving crankcase issues on high hp engines, and by issues I mean my last motor was blowing oil out the oil pan seal as well as the EVAC lines poping off while under boost, but maybe I'm just paranoid...

Just to clarify then, it's ok to put turbo's, S/C, nitrous on our trucks, make 1000 hp motors and break into the 9's but it's not OK to worry about the little things on the bottom end of the motor? And I don't see how having a truck makes any difference in how HP is made. Maybe I should go ask on tech...