road race style pan

What oil pan do you guys use and while I'm there should I install a windage try?
Or is there a pan with the windage try included?

I'm getting the Aluminator engine and wonder if I should install such a pan.
If so, can I reuse the oil pan gasket?

Canton sells the road race 7qts oil pan. best fit I've seen and the most used.
Windage tray is separate from Canton.

If you have the cash to spend definitely get the oil pan.

the gasket can be reused if it's in good condition.

Isn't the Canton to "deep", it looks that way on the pictures.
My car sits very low and I don't want to scrape the pavement with it.
I thought about the Moroso Model: 20547 with 6qt.?

I've heard a couple of people not liking the fitment of the moroso.
the canton sits low. but I had it on my car with the KW coilovers on a VERY low setting and I never scraped anything.

IMHO Canton is the way to go.:thumbsup:

You will hit the K member or the bolt heads on an MM K member brace, long before you ever get near hitting a Canton road race pan.

I have the steel road race pan and windage tray. I feel it is an excellent longevity modification for anyone who likes turns.

IMO it should be considered required when going to sticky high G tires.
The actual fill amount of the "7" quart road race pan, with new filter is about 8 3/4 quarts.

I have a Canton road race pan that came as original equipment on my 2000 R. I've hit the pan twice, luckily it's steel and not aluminum, after I lowered the car on coil-overs with a complete MM front suspension and K-member. I hit it the first time at the Milwaukee Mile on the transition to the infield and again at Grattan. I have not gone back to those tracks since.

I may have an aluminum Moroso drag style pan available soon. It looks like I have to go to a dry sump system for my new bullet install! :rollseyes

FWIW

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So that would be it?
http://www.rpmoutlet.com/03cobraflom.htm

It looks like you can't drain all the oil because the drain plug sits to high, can that be?

gcassidy has a canton pan on his '98 Cobra. His car isn't super low, but he does do a lot of road racing.

Jimmysidecarr said:

IMHO Canton is the way to go.:thumbsup:

You will hit the K member or the bolt heads on an MM K member brace, long before you ever get near hitting a Canton road race pan.

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The Canton pan on my R hangs below the MM k-member and brace on my car.

oh,
I hope it's different with the stock K member.

I think you have 'slightly' better clearance with the stock K-member.

steve121 said:

The Canton pan on my R hangs below the MM k-member and brace on my car.

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I no longer have a hex on my drain plug. It's sort of pentagon shaped now! :cryying:

ac427cobra said:

I no longer have a hex on my drain plug. It's sort of pentagon shaped now! :cryying:

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Scraping the drain plug is scary stuff; I guess you won't have to worry about that once you have the dry sump engine installed.

I run a stock K and mildly cut stock springs.

But I can see wanting to be VERY careful with a tubular aftermarket K in an ultra low car.

But if you think about it, even with a stock pan, you would still be fairly vulnerable.

I think I'll take the slosh protection and just try and keep the biotch on track!(so far, so good)

I'm not really all that fast, I just like to have fun with it, and I would like to have fun with it for many years.

Perhaps some skid bars could be welded in to protect the pan and engine?:shrug:
Seems like a worth while mod to me if you think some "track offs" might be inevitable.

I installed the Canton trap-door 7-quart pan when I did my K-member this winter. I've had it to 2 track events and I no longer notice any pressure drops in hard corners. Totally happy with it. I got mine on Ebay and it came with a girdle, windage tray, and a dipstick, for about what just the pan lists for on Canton's site. Then I sold the girdle and windage tray I also used the stock dipstick because the Canton pan is dimpled to clear it and there's no need for a different one if you're not running the girldle and tray.

Mine does not sit lower than any portion of the MM K-member or its bracing, even though I'm using Energy Suspension mounts that mimic the lower "convertible" and post-89 hardtop mounts, and if it did, and I were worried about it, I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to fashion a skid plate.

I friend has an aluminator engine in his 03 cobra and the shop had to slightly raise one side of the engine so that the pan would clear the mm k-member.

I have a Canton on my 99 (with stock K-member). I have been two off at VIR and straddled a set of gators. The gators ground the head off one of the bolts in the 4-pt G-load brace, but never touched the pan.

The only problem I had (which you won't) was not being able to use my stock convertible brace under my stock k-member. I doesn't clear the Canton pan. We had to cut it and re-brace it, which works, but gives me even less ground clearance.
But I have the comfort of knowing I have 1" of square Dearborn steel to grind through before hitting the pan.

oops,
I'm running a 03 Cobra convertible, so will I see the same problem with the stock convertible brace under my stock k-member with all aftermarked oil pans?

Would I see any benefit from the oil pan and windage tray while doing high speed runs?
Or is it just for a good pickup in corners?