aboythatskates
Hard-core CEG'er
their all scored up huh? hard too see. im wondering if just making a pickup tube lower in the oil pan would help. or making larger drain back holes in the block
Escape and taurus pans are not the same.
Not sure why some motors are so sensitive to rod bearing failure. 3 CEG members raced at VIR and none of us had engine issues. One stock 2.5L SVT motor, one Ported 2005 3L, and another 3L (unsure year/build type). :shrug:
those are both escape pans in the picture above.
i wouldn't call it rod bearing failure, wasn't the bearings fault. Too many variables to compare like this, not sure what other mods these cars you speak of have but i wonder if any of them pull as hard through corners as my cougar? I could be wrong but just glancing at a video of vir it doesn't look to have long hard high speed right handers like hpr.
Nah your wrong, the cleaner one is an mpv pan, the mpv pan is better because its the same.
I was the 3rd at VIR and I've got a full 3L with 2.5 pan and every 3.0 I've had in this car has been a Taurus engine. All of them but this one have been using Taurus Pans and all of them have spun bearings. 4 in total the last victim was an 18k mile 05 Taurus motor that spun after 3 laps on CMP... it would be really nice to find the issue and fix it but that's to much to hope for.