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I was just talking about smacking oil pans today, and go figure, while I was out running some errands it happened... I should have slowed down to drive through a construction area more carefully but I didn't... Smash, high spot on the road and my oil pan is toast... Worst part of this is that it tore off a small piece of the girdle with it... What a f***ing PITA

Motor will be coming out...

Has anyone else been through this... If so, post up. :up:

Pics:

Pics of my broken girdle. This pisses me off the most...

 

[drhonda]

Knock on wood, haven't lost one yet, but my oil pan looks like shit, its all scraped up and scratched.

I think colin is up 3 or 4 of them.

 

[joescivic]

dang, what a coincidence. i just hit mine today, and now theres a thread on it. i wasnt thinking when i went over the speed bumps, it didnt happen with the 2 speed bumps i went over, then the 3rd, was a bang. all i can tell is its scraped up, thats all. it may be nothing when it happens, but it really makes me gringe my teeth.

 

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I'm gonna post some pics of it. Mine is totalled... Shattered like glass.

I'm a little worried about the girdle/crank brace. There is a piece ripped off the backside. :down: Hopefully a good welder I know can breathe some life back into it. We'll see, I have the complete piece and the break was pretty clean from what I can see.

:up: to Albert @ Certified Racing, he has been helping me out this afternoon, and it looks like I'll be using a steel oil pan when I get the engine up and running again...

 

[nos51]

i havent hit one yet in my frog

maybe i am just lucky,j/k
best thing to do is raise the car up a bit or go a k24 pan which will dent instead of shatter and has a bit more clearance.....

 

[bossman032]

I remember hitting a bolder rock. I thought it was plastic ohh man was a worried. I hit it so hard the rock shattered. The brute off the hit on my traction bar and mark is still there. Luckly I have a tsx oil pan like a 1/2-.75" dent...if it was a type S oilpan it would be long destroyed. :wow:

 

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best thing to do is raise the car up a bit or go a k24 pan which will dent instead of shatter and has a bit more clearance.....

This is the same advice I got from Albert @ Certified. Thanks

 

[joescivic]

I remember hitting a bolder rock. I thought it was plastic ohh man was a worried. I hit it so hard the rock shattered. The brute off the hit on my traction bar and mark is still there. Luckly I have a tsx oil pan like a 1/2-.75" dent...if it was a type S oilpan it would be long destroyed. :wow:

so the type s oil pan aint so strong? the TSX pans cheap? havent looked into oil pans, though i should have since i knew when i had the swap done how low it sits.

 

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The RSX-S oil pan is aluminum so it shatters when hit hard enough... The K24 oil pan is steel and from what I'm hearing along with bossman's incident, they are stronger and offer better ground clearance. Perfect for my situation...

 

[nos51]

The RSX-S oil pan is aluminum so it shatters when hit hard enough... The K24 oil pan is steel and from what I'm hearing along with bossman's incident, they are stronger and offer better ground clearance. Perfect for my situation...

yea exactly.for a k24 oil pan is like a b-series pan,steel.k20a2 is cast aluminum.the steel will dent,bend etc....

 

[joescivic]

yea exactly.for a k24 oil pan is like a b-series pan,steel.k20a2 is cast aluminum.the steel will dent,bend etc....

ahh, ok. cool. im sure the pan would be cheap then if i can go to a junk yard and get a whole k24 longblock out of an accord for $475

but thats an accord k24. is that pan steel?

 

[kid]

yes, it is steel

 

[rookiepains]

This is the same advice I got from Albert @ Certified. Thanks

Albert @Certified is the best . But his nose is always stuffy...lol
I love goin to his shop to pick up what ever bolt and i mean whatever bolt or part i need. its like goin thru a dealers parts room .:up::up:

 

[TrePound]

been there twice smashed two oil pans on these shitty roads. they were small cracks tho on the first one. the second one got destroyed lol.

 

[MANNYMAN]

wasnt someone supposed to make a stronger oil pan???

 

[neo]

K20A3 oilpans are steel too, and I am pretty sure they are shorter then K24 ones too.

 

[dcloo]

I will stay with type s oil pan cause it's like block brace
K24 was made by steel but I don't think it's got strenght enough as type a to hold high rpm of the crank vibration

 

[KspecEM1]

I cracked mines on the friday the 13th. Luckily my friend had a tsx oil pan lying around so we used it. I'm looking to swap it back out to a stock K20a oil pan as the tsx sits way too low.

 

[neo]

I will stay with type s oil pan cause it's like block brace
K24 was made by steel but I don't think it's got strenght enough as type a to hold high rpm of the crank vibration

Unless you plan on making over 700 WHP or so I doubt you will see a benefit.

 

[allmotorb18c]

:up: to Albert @ Certified Racing, he has been helping me out this afternoon, and it looks like I'll be using a steel oil pan when I get the engine up and running again...

Damn Mike that sucks big time..good luck getting it fixed. Albert at Certified is very cool and always down to help. Very good people over there:up: