I drilled and tapped the pan when I built the engine last year.

Oil lines are probably 15* off vertical. In the working range. With how large the drain hole is,

 

I spent almost 2 hours drilling my return on the passenger side of the pan and never had a problem. Used lots of grease and cleaned the bit so many times I can't remember. Ran the truck for 3 years. Pulled my pan a couple months again, this was what I found. Was going to just do a cam swap. That turned into a motor.


Those shaving were too big to be anything except from drilling the turbo oil return. The rear cam bearings were toast but that could have been the shavings.

 

When I drilled and tapped the 5.3 years ago I used a shop vac. It was running the whole time we were drilling and tapping. Last year when I lost the motor do to the cam gear breaking, there was nothing in the pan beside piston bits.

 

I wont chance it, takes maybe 45 min to get the oil pan out, plus i like to weld my fittings

 

I just about finished it up this week. Just need to plasma cut a hole in the down pipe to run the wastegate into and final weld everything. Looks like it's going to work out perfect.




I'll probably just have to cut out the plastic inner fender a little but for some clearance.

 

4 inch dp?

 

It is.

 

Nice work! Looks good.

 

Wow. That turned out really really nice!!!

 

Cool, thanks a lot. Wasn't trying super hard, lol.