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| RE: 428 oil pan |
| By John - 11/07/2001 4:30:33 PM; IP 142.177.53.14 |
The web site is :
http://www.aviaid.com/index2.html
It will take a bit of looking to find it the pan listing and there is no picture ...yet. The rep says they will be updating the website fairly soon as the web-site isn't that informative. The pan is supposed to have been original equipment on 427 AC Cobras. I believe that as I found reference to the AVIAD pan in an old Cobra magazine article. It is well made of Aluminum, but not that pleasing to look at. It is a shallow (6" deep)pan with a center resavoir with 4 swinging doors feeding it. It comes with a special pick-up for the oil pump and an internal top baffle to help contain the oil. It also comes with a windage tray that has some mesh welded into it vs the solid type. It has a bung hole at the front of the pan for an oil temp probe and the drain plug is in the front bottom corner. I got them to put an extra bunghole in the back of the pan for an easier fit for my oil temp probe. It has two tubes on the top of the passenger side "T" . One is for a dipstick tube (you need an extension tube and a fitting which they can supply) and the other larger tube is if you want to hook up a PCV hose to the crankcase. The price is high, but it is obviously a lot of work to fabricate. The holes along the edge match up reasonably well to the block, but if a socket wrench is used, you must use an extension as the end of the wrench will hit the side of the pan. Around the "T" you need to use a box end wrench. The Branda Pan holes didn't line up very well at all. Two holes even had to be enlarged slightly if I remember correctly. I wouldn't rest the weight of the engine on the AVIAD pan if I were you . It is only aluminum sheet after all. |
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