Well here is what I see. Same thing I did. I have a lift and My son has a engine machine shop. My car was going through oil since the day I installed it.
I could not find the leak or where it was going. The first thing I did wrong was listened to all the race car builders and painted the engine black to let the heat out theory. The rest of the engine was polished Aluminum. The Pan was a Milodon. Searched for the leak for a long time and never found it, Tried Intake. Valve covers . Senders. .
After tearing the engine down for upgrades we saw the milodon pan coating was flaking. So we sold it to the guy with the Demon. Due to the pan looking bad we painted it orange. With the pan now painted orange we found the leak after installed. The pan had a bad weld on the side up high and only leaked when running and went all over the side of the block..
I will never paint any engine a dark shiney color again. all the milodon pans get Painted unless the customer requests to leave it gold. The engine always looked wet and you could not tell where the oil was coming from. The gold pan hid the wet gold oil. Silver would be better then gold . I will always paint the engine Orange, Blue or Red now..
Your engine color choice although may look cool it will always hide where oil leaks are coming from.
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