The pictures below are of an oil pan that Mario428 put together for me. The pan on the engine in my Galaxie (also put together by Mario) is a rear sump pan, and it won't fit into my new Mustang project. For that car I need a front sump pan, but I wanted to maintain some of the design features of the rear sump pan, which worked out very well. Swinging gates to keep the oil around the pickup, and a kickout to the passenger side of the engine to hold the oil that is scraped off the crank by the windage tray were a couple of the key features. I took some basic measurements with the engine block mounted in the car, and sent them off to Mario. He CAD designed a complete pan, and cut and bent all the aluminum pieces to put it together. On the rear sump pan Mario sent me the parts and I welded it together, but in this case Mario offered the services of his aluminum welder, which I was only too happy to accept, because I'm not exactly ahead of schedule on the car. The pan came yesterday, and it really looks good.
Notice that there are some holes in the bottom of the pan; this is for access to the oil pan bolts on the kickout side. The same design was used on the rear sump pan; the holes are sealed by welding a flat aluminum plate with threaded holes over them, and O-ringed plugs are threaded in to seal. Basically, this leaves me with seven different drain plugs in the bottom of the pan. The alternative was to only use a few of the passenger side oil pan rail bolts, and maybe put one hole in the pan, in the center of the rail to use a center bolt to hold that side in place. But I wanted the more reliable sealing of all the factory bolts, so Mario designed the pan like this. I will have to cut a piece of aluminum, bore the holes and thread them, and then get the O-ringed plugs to screw in and seal the holes. But that won't take more than an hour or so, so having this pan completed really saves me a lot of time. Thanks Mario!
