LS6 or LS2 Oil Pan for Road Racing?
06-08-2014, 01:25 AM
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LS6 or LS2 Oil Pan for Road Racing?
I've heard opinions from reputable motor builders go both ways. Anybody have experience with the stock LS2 pan which GM says is supposed to improve oiling? Please do NOT turn this into a discussion of dry sumps. The question is "Is the LS6 or the LS2 oil pan best for road racing/HPDE work?"
06-08-2014, 08:08 AM
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Let's put it this way if the C6 oil pan was a better design then why would GM engineers make a batwing style pan to install onto early C6 T1 cars when they started having oiling issues? There are still a few of those pans floating around out there. The advantage is simple, more capacity in the batwing pan.
We even installed a batwing pan on a LS6 that we installed on a C6 NASA ST2 car.
We even installed a batwing pan on a LS6 that we installed on a C6 NASA ST2 car.
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06-08-2014, 10:32 AM
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Let's put it this way if the C6 oil pan was a better design then why would GM engineers make a batwing style pan to install onto early C6 T1 cars when they started having oiling issues? There are still a few of those pans frosting around out there. The advantage is simple, more capacity in the batwing pan.
We even installed a batwing pan on a LS6 that we installed on a NASA ST2 car.
We even installed a batwing pan on a LS6 that we installed on a NASA ST2 car.
If I was running a wet sump in a Corvette, the batwing pan would be my choice.
06-08-2014, 02:33 PM
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Let's put it this way if the C6 oil pan was a better design then why would GM engineers make a batwing style pan to install onto early C6 T1 cars when they started having oiling issues? There are still a few of those pans frosting around out there. The advantage is simple, more capacity in the batwing pan.
We even installed a batwing pan on a LS6 that we installed on a NASA ST2 car.
We even installed a batwing pan on a LS6 that we installed on a NASA ST2 car.
I wonder if they are exactly the same as the LS6 Batwing?