I know they sold kits a bunch of years ago to weld bigger sumps on stock pans, but i just did a little hunting and didnt see any. Are they still out there?
There's a guy on Fleabay that sells weld on side cavities to increase volume. Haven't seen complete sumps for a long time. You could do what we used to do. Cut the bottom off the pan and simply weld in a couple inches of material; then reattach the bottom. Here's a link to the side cavity: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Oil-pan-sid...pt=Race_Car_Parts&hash=item19e7716e4d&vxp=mtr
Back in my youthful drag racing days, we would slice a piece out of a donor pan and weld it into the one we wanted to use. Have to address baffles and extend the pickup but even that's not too difficult for a novice........I believe Moroso offered one in the 70's and maybe Milidon but not sure about now......
speedway still sells stuff like tat in there racing catalogs . we used to cut the pan and measure the thickness of the metal and cut a strip of the same thickness the added depth we wanted and welded it back together like a car body for one of my Pontiacs I cut the damged bottom off and hammerformed a new pan bottom around a wood buck I made and welded it on it was 16 ga steel IRRC .
I saw something long ago where they took those C-4 trans pans that had the cooling tubes running through them and would weld those to the bottom of oil pans. The C-4 pans were a nice squarish pan whose size matched sumps. Looked like a neat idea for simple oil cooling and increased volume. I don't think the company offering the pans make them for that trans anymore.
I cant remember who but ive seen it on some SS drag car oil pan too, this is just for a daily tho so i probably wont benifit from the cooling
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