thank you second generation guy for the pan. it's in good shape, once i killed everything in it lol. took three hours in the solvent tank and several in the blaster cabinet, but the paint is almost off. anyway,here's whats getting done on it right now. I have the threaded pcv pickup on, the old one,I cut off the tube, and it has a steel plate welded over it. all they are is a tube at the top of the pan,with a bent over piece of steel to prevent picking up splash. the real baffle is in the box on the back of the engine. the point of doing this pickup is to get rid of the hose that always leaks.
the old pcv tube is on the left, and the new one is on the right,hopefully everything will clear, it's actually a little bit shorter then the original.
I really need to find out how much clearance is between the bottom of the pan and the bottom of the crank throws. going to weld in some of this stainless heavy duty mesh as a baffle, how it works is simple,oil returning to the sump can flow through it easy, but it won't flow a lot of oil at once, as if you were cornering hard, the oil will tend to stay in the lowest area which is the sump. this is a very simple and time tested method of controlling oil. I just need the clearance.
I noticed the inside of the pan is painted, bad idea on hondas part. the paint on this one was coming off in sheets. that paint goes right into your oil pump pickup screen. paint on the inside of a pan is a waste, everything is coated in oil,nothing is going to rust. I wonder how many of these cars have paint coming apart in the pan like this.
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