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Oil Pans



moroso make a scirocco/VW oil pan that holds 7 qtrs. look it up on
their web site.


On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:21:08 EDT, bfdeihl@aol.com <bfdeihl@aol.com> wrote:
> Since you are local (I live in Vancouver too) you might want to check out the
> oil pan spacer sold by Vince at Quality VW Parts:
> http://www.qualityvwparts.com/oilpan.htm
> 
> Vince doesn't have the best reputation for being reliable as a mailorder
> source, but as I have bought MANY thousands of dollars of VW parts from him I can
> tell you he is pretty much a standup guy with the locals. (PS-- I also know
> where he lives).
> 
> Good quality stuff and well researched.
> 
> The BEST option for increased oil capacity would be a dry sump setup like
> Bertil's sells but those are crazy expensive:
> 
> http://www.bertilsengines.com/products/drysump.html
> 
> As far as coating the pan with a ceramic thermal emissive coating goes-- In
> my opinion you'd be far better off with one of the Schrick cast aluminum pans--
> which  has external fins for better heat dissappation and cast-in internal
> baffles to help keep oil at the pickup tube.  But even at that, the best bet for
> additional oil cooling is an external cooler mounted in the airstream.
> 
> Just another opinion-
> Danny
> Caddy, BMW Baur, Valkyrie and a bunch of Scirocco 1s
> Vancouver, Washington
> 
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