Greddy oilpan help

[clutch Kick drifter]

I just got my greddy oilpan in for my SR. In the box it has the needed screws to hold the oil pan on but it also has four tiny screws with washers? Where do these go. It also came with two flat pieces of metal with hinges on them? What are these.

[Rosco]

They are the baffles....the screws mount them to the inside of the oil pan. They keep the oil from sloshing all over the place in hard cornering (prevents oil starvation). You should have instructions with your pan. It may be in Japanese , but the picture shows you exactly what you need to do unless you bought an ebay knock-off .

[clutch Kick drifter]

na i got the realy greddy but there in japanese like you said and the pics suck. Thanks though,

[drifter_for_life06]

find someone on here that can translate and scan those papers

otherwise go at it the way most of us would

[clutch Kick drifter]

haha yeah i got it though.

[Rosco]

The pan holds an extra quart right? I can't remember if it holds 4 or 5 qts. Anyway good to see you got the real pan....I've heard some nightmare stories about the ebay look-alike ones..

[95lstegman]

4.5 quarts if you don't have an oil relocation and/or oil cooler kit as well. you can get over 5 quarts with both of those .

[clutch Kick drifter]

yup 4.5 quarts! Ive heard bad things about them to and i though id just spend that extra cash and get a quality Greedy pan.

[95lstegman]

i'm not sure i want to get one now b/c when i did the swap i banged the oil pan back to perfect original shape and now there are already 2 tiny dents in the very leading edge, i don't know from what. i'm sure the GReddy pan sticks down a bit farther, and it's aluminum to boot, so it wouldn't fare as well. BTW the 2 dents are super tiny, maybe the size of a quarter and less than a 1/2" deep at the deepest, and are in the leading edge so they won't affect the oil pickup. still disturbing that roads in lake county suck that bad, though. and my driveway.

[2_Liter_Turbo]

Get the Tomei pan. It's steel, just like the facotry one. That's the one I am going to get.

[95lstegman]

how much is the Tomei? sounds expensive.

[2_Liter_Turbo]

$496 from SPL. Support a sponser, get the Tomei Pan!

[reno240sx]

$285 for the greddy pan from Phase2motortrend.

I'm pretty sure the greddy pan doesn't stick down as much as the stock pan. It gets it's extra capacity because it sticks out farther on the sides. When I installed mine, it seemed like it was stronger than the stock pan.

[Rosco]

$285 for the greddy pan from Phase2motortrend.

I'm pretty sure the greddy pan doesn't stick down as much as the stock pan. It gets it's extra capacity because it sticks out farther on the sides. When I installed mine, it seemed like it was stronger than the stock pan.

Your right on the money....OEM oil pan has really thin metal when I compared it too my greddy pan. The stock sticks down further than the greddy as well too....plus the greddy one has a bung for an aftermarket oil temp sensor...That Tomei one is good, I'm sure, but that price is outrageous..

[2_Liter_Turbo]

The downside of the Greddy unit, is that it is made up of Cast Aluminum. If a rock or other object hits it, you have a savage crack on it. Steel, will just get a ding in it. That's why I am staying away from it. If you drive your car on the street, this should be something to consider.

[95lstegman]

The downside of the Greddy unit, is that it is made up of Cast Aluminum. If a rock or other object hits it, you have a savage crack on it. Steel, will just get a ding in it. That's why I am staying away from it. If you drive your car on the street, this should be something to consider.

thank you. i was just going to say this to those who are revelling in the glory of significantly larger oil capacity.

i guess my solution for more oil capacity will be long, fat lines leading to an outrageously oversized oil cooler and possibly an oil filter relocation setup.

speaking of oil coolers, does anybody know where you can get the sandwich adapter for the block that has a thermostat in it so it only routes flow to the cooler when the oil gets warm?

[llamabeta]

The downside of the Greddy unit, is that it is made up of Cast Aluminum. If a rock or other object hits it, you have a savage crack on it. Steel, will just get a ding in it. That's why I am staying away from it. If you drive your car on the street, this should be something to consider.

Are you not running with your engine undershield on? Of course, things can happen with that on but it's far more effective to have it on then not.

[Rosco]

I was gonna say that too, along with that there are skid plates you can buy too. I'm telling ya, it ain't soft by no means. The roads around where I live don't require me to worry about it that much either....Your roads like rallycross roads or something?

[2_Liter_Turbo]

The roads here have huge pot holes in them from water getting in cracks and then expanding from being frozen. It gets below zero here, so the roads are really horrible. Feels like im off-roading on a skateboard.

[95lstegman]

Feels like im off-roading on a skateboard.

wow, well said.

anyways, the roads by me don't get those big cracks, they just get pot-holes and then those get filled and that makes it worse because then they put too much asphalt in there and then it sticks up. also, ALL of the contractors that make roads aly the road, finish it, and THEN tear it up to lay pipes under it, causing more patching and such. i seriously don't know how potholes get there, but many of the roads by me haven't been repaved since the 60's and 70's. the road beds weren't made that well in the beginning, and there aren't enough people paying taxes to warrant repaving most of them. only the major highways get repaved within a human lifetime.

and no, my car didn't come with any plastic mud guard stuff underneath. i thought it was kinda wierd but i didn't think anything of it b/c i bought it to swap, so that crap would have just gotten in the way.

can somebody point me to one of these said skidplates? i'd be very interested.

[Rosco]

can somebody point me to one of these said skidplates? i'd be very interested.

http://www.driftfactory.com/pr...d=669

That one won't work with the greddy tho...

[Rosco]

One more find:http://www.driftfactory.com/pr...=2894

[95lstegman]

wow, i think for the money i'll just make my own. i saw a guy make a HUGE skidplate for his honda a while back out of like 80lbs of steel tubes after losing a built engine to a bashed oil pan. i won't go as far as he did but i think i will make it out of more than just a thick sheet. i'll put a couple rods in and a sheet in between or something. can't possibly cost as much as the Silk Road one, which doesn't even look that helpful.