Who makes good oil pans for the SBM?
YR...you've got me curious...what do you mean by box pan and why didn't you like it?
A full length box with no sump. You can’t baffle one of them well enough to control the oil using it as a wet sump. The Milodon was better than the Stef’s by a long way, but it still has issues.
With a box pan and a full length 1 inch kick out and a scraper, I still had to kill the engine in the lights to keep from nicking a bearing. They look wonderful on the dyno, but in practice they suck.
I guess if you are of the mind to screw with it, you could make it an external wet sump and baffle the crap out of the pickup, hoping to keep some oil around it.
It’s kinda funny, especially if you ain’t writing the checks to lean this crap that STEF’s was constantly bitching about running 7 quarts in that pan. They wanted 5 and NO MORE. With 5 in the pan, it would start killing adjusters. Of course, they couldn’t grasp how the bearings didn’t go first, but they say I had it oiling it would take out an adjuster first.
I got to where I could feel it in the car...it was almost like you were lifting off the throttle. Part of that was the rocker arm bushings were starting to grab the shafts too.
That pan and pickup were so poorly designed it was criminal. I made it useable with extra baffles and 2 extra quarts of oil, but the power on the dyno never translated to the time slip with that junker on it.
The guy who bought the pan from me had to sign a note agreeing that I had told him the pan was junk, would break parts and didn’t make any more power than a good rear sump pan, and the idiot bought it anyway. I guess for a hundred bucks he thought he was pulling a Diamond out of a goats ***. Rather he tugged on a turd.