Smashed Oil Pan Thread

[E30SPDFRK]

Never broken a pan. I've scraped through a few and dented the shit out of one, but never broken.

[Roysneon]

The only pan I ever broke was an m42 lower section after hitting some black ice and going over a curb. I've been driving on H&R race with 15mm drop hats and an e34 pan on my m50 without a skid plate for a year, no issues. I drove this car all around Nova Scotia, through Maine, NH, NY, Jersey with no problems. It's really not that hard.

[whterice]

I scraped a hole in a pan but never smashed one. I find I go thru more lips then anything

[325ix]

So are dry sumps. Your point?

Those aren't readily available for an e30, or cheap.

[QUKBMER]

Never have broken a oil pan driving e30's with m20 2.5/or 2.7/or a m42 in 13 years bro. All mild to moderate lowering suspension wise.

[unevolved]

Smashed oil pans are cool! I have no situational awareness! /s

[Roysneon]

At least M42 pans are silly easy to replace. The lower portion, anyway.

[ToPLeSS(e30)FeinD]

Been through 4 ad a half, but these two were the worse.




The other side of this one was completely gone. Tapped the end of my oil pump pretty good too.

[ejnight]

skid plate you say?





this skid plate didn't do its job so well.

i wasn't the one that fucked this up. i bought(traded actaually) this car in this shape.

That is a perfect example of what not to do. Even with a skid plate you can't drive it in to the ground daily and expect it to last. By the looks of this plate it took a lot of beating. Its almost flat for god sake.

[unevolved]

And bolted to a piece of steel strap, no less. No shit it didn't do any good.

[Colby.325e]

The only pan I ever broke was an m42 lower section after hitting some black ice and going over a curb. I've been driving on H&R race with 15mm drop hats and an e34 pan on my m50 without a skid plate for a year, no issues. I drove this car all around Nova Scotia, through Maine, NH, NY, Jersey with no problems. It's really not that hard.

Ever visit the Freeport shops area in maine? I think I remember seeing a nice e30 there with Nova Scotia plates.. Got pics somewhere on my old phones sd card. What do you drive?

[Roysneon]

Ever visit the Freeport shops area in maine? I think I remember seeing a nice e30 there with Nova Scotia plates.. Got pics somewhere on my old phones sd card. What do you drive?

Silver touring.

[e30-325]

This was last year:



heavy traffic moving 50-60 rock in the middle of the road and no where to go

[Colby.325e]

Silver touring.

Dang. Not you. :(

[flyboyx]

That is a perfect example of what not to do. Even with a skid plate you can't drive it in to the ground daily and expect it to last. By the looks of this plate it took a lot of beating. Its almost flat for god sake.

i am not faulting you since i didn't do any of this hillbilly engineering nor did i wreck the car. i hope you don't get that impression.

the car was slammed on cut lowering springs. it was so fucking low that the pan was literally about 2" above the ground. if it wasn't for this bullshit, i would have never ended up with the car. its a 770 code mtech 2 btw.

maybe you have guessed, i am not a fan of slammed suspension.