Oil Pan Modifications for Turbo and 4 Bolt Main Small Block Ford #DarkMatterPikachu

45 thoughts on “Oil Pan Modifications for Turbo and 4 Bolt Main Small Block Ford #DarkMatterPikachu”

1. A Bulk Head Fitting would of been better for the return line. Less chances of it leaking.

2. Oh dear that machine shop needs to go back to school

3. wait, why didn't you just drill the hole in the oil pan for the return?. Metal shavings? you used a drill for the pilot hole

4. Omg what a disaster

5. "you know it sounds just like a telephone when you hit it"

6. Idiots

7. This is hack job inc. I get that you are doing it 'per the instructions'. I did it the same way, mounting a Vortech Supercharger on my Mustang. But only because it was my only option!! I wasn't going to pull the engine, to drill and weld a bung into my oil pan. You had the engine out, oil pan on the bench?! No excuse to not do this job correctly.

8. I thought teflon tape was used for dissimilar metals and sealant (pipe dope) was for similar metals?

9. Steel bung stepper bit weld done.

10. that's the perfect job for friction drilling: You could get the perfect sized hole for your tap and have the material on the other side to thread it into

11. Bulk head fitting?

12. Jesus that’s the way you do it in your own garage when don’t have access to a machine shop!

13. Should have welded the correct nut on the outside. I know people think this is OK. But there is a shit load of vibration and heat on an oil pan..One reason they design oil pans made for this purpose. The last car i built. I removed the stock oil pan and went with a dry sump system. That was also water cooled with the proper oil filter adapter.

14. Wtf????
    Fuck that
    MINT!!!

15. you could see the marks in the pan where the main bolts were hitting too, personally i would have welded the bung, and preheated the pan when shaping it around the mains, just to make the chances of a hairline crack a little less. I would have drilled the hole and left the air hammer in the toolbox. 🙂

16. As you were trying to fit the oil pan down tight against the block did you forget that the gasket was going to hold it up slightly?

17. This is the second hack video in a row i have watched with that machine shop and eric. Oh boy i would not be proud. This is the complete wrong way to do this. Npt steel bung and the correct size hole and tig it in. Sad.

18. I read all of these cancer comments, and wonder if this along with similar shitfights on who knows how many other videos have contributed to ETCGs "break" (which is well-deserved but I fear is quite permanent) :'(

19. I think that is going to work. You had to create a lip to get a thread surface.

20. "As stated in the video, the method shown in this video is what the turbo instructions called for. It worked fine and there are no leaks." -Eric
    If it works, it works. ALTHOUGH I have learned that if you hack it it will work for a period of time. a month, a year, fifteen years. it just depends, but in the back of your mind its going to eat away at you, knowing you've done the job wrong and one day you'll go back and fix it, because its not the customer's car… its your car. Blood sweat and tears went to doing it right and when everyone says it's butched you'll know you fucked up and you'll fix it. then you'll look at it 15 years from now and be happy knowing you did right and followed your judgement despite what the directions said. You consciously don't want a bung Eric, but you subconsciously need one…….

21. Friction drill bits are what they needed would have done all the work for them look into it they are perfect for this type of thing and what they are made for

22. All of you complain too much. It's his oil pan and he will do with it as he pleases. Go get your own😁🖕🏾sound like my freaking grandma

23. You really ought to do Kalvinator a favor and delete this video. I watched the other videos with kevin and he seems to know his stuff and did quality work. This mickey mouse mod, which you agree wasn't their fault, really makes the operation look poor.

24. What I can not believe is this. 1) The method used. While the pan is off the engine, and your at a machine shop you choose the most hackery way to do it. 2) In your many years of experience you didn't question this method or voice that you verified this method with On3Performance 614.439.0057 prior to start and state in the video that you did that. 3) After filming and in video edit phase, go HMMM this really looks butchery. The hint might have been the father walking off shaking his head. And send him the rough cut and ask him what he thought PRIOR to posting it online. 4) After taking criticism on this method in comments, just take the video offline in respect for the machine shop and the owner.

25. This was hard to watch, you could have drilled a hole and welded a proper bung into that pan in half the time it took to hack it apart like they did.

26. I like the instruction you said about them saying no drilling the pan coz of chips & yet you have to thread the hole for the fitting.= chips. haha. Yes in your case the pan was off so did not matter.

27. Half of these comments are people who never wrench on cars before. Put some elbow and grease is to it and it will work.

28. A/N bulkhead fitting.

    To connect a braided steel a/n line…….

29. just did a weld in bung on mine. oil return lines outside of race hoses tend to deteriorate and blow.

30. Does anyone know if you would need to make 2 holes for the oil return line on a Twin Turbo setup? Or can you just get an adapter to run 2 hoses from 1 hole?

31. 1:15 Pilot hole and a stepped drill. What the actual hell guys? I would have never though to chisel out a hole in a million years…

32. I enjoy watching Eric's video's and I'm sure he's a good guy but this video is just too much. I don't where he got that oil pan (it looks like junkyard stuff) and threading an oil return into thin metal like that with sealer? Wow. The goofiness is getting a little old also. No disrespect but this one was just too much.

33. Hey Eric I've been patient about the fairmont progress but what's going on what's the last video you've posted on it???

34. a professionals worst nightmare is when the professional customer is sitting there over your shoulder second guessing every move

35. you know you keep replying with "that's what the instructions called for" any monkey can read a set of instructions I thought you'd have better common sense since you work on cars and seem proud to be a mechanic but after watching this… nope. Thought it would be better. i'm with the other guy I hope to god I never run into a shop like this.

36. i dont usually like silicon used to seal anything on the oil pan, but maybe in this case they have a good reason. Silicon getting into the oil can clog the oil pickup.

37. He is pounding that hole out for sure!

38. Really bad idea
    No matter if it's in the instructions

    Badly written instructions my friend

39. Lol this shit is something you would do in your moms driveway not in a "professional" machine shop where you could have welded a fitting onto the pan. I can't stop watching this and loling at these tards

40. Very disappointed in this video. A complete lack of professionalism. I do not think I would ever do business with the shop after seeing this kind of work they perform and consider acceptable. I don't really care what the instructions say, this method was just wrong anyway you look at it.

41. eric i just ask that you make an etcg1 video admitting that this method is not ideal. even diy guys wouldve had someone weld in a fitting. whats a new oil pan gasket and a fitting gonna cost? thats totally in the average guys budget.

42. Just wondering could you have tig welded a 1/4 inch piece of steel and drilled and tapped that? Just wondering.

43. This is On3 kit and this is how my instructions said to make the hole as well(07 GT) and I have put around 30k miles on mine with zero leaks.

44. Should have brazed a female brass bung with 5% silver rod and be done forever. That IS going to turn itself loose in the worst time (most likely in the burnout box). You're on time to fix this. Good luck.

45. Holy shit just weld on a barb. I know the kit says do it this way which would make sense if the it was on the engine and in the car but this is just butchery

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