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Jerry,
Maybe it's just a holdover from my drag racing & SCCA days, but I get really nervous looking at an oil pan with a shallow slope. If that diagram represents a tractor configuration, during steep descents, you could very easily find yourself with bubbles in your oil line.
If your cowl will allow it, you might consider moving the radiator forward a few inches and accept a gap between the bottom of the original oil pan and part of the ductwork.
Here's a mod to your drawing that I'd feel safer with.
Or, add some baffling to retard any major flow of oil "up" the slope.
Dale R.
From: Jerry Hey <jerryhey@earthlink.net>
Date: 2005/06/05 Sun AM 11:32:09 EDT
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: [FlyRotary] Modifying the Renesis oil pan
After careful examination, I believe the Renesis oil pan is relatively easy to modify to add capacity, place the pick up in a deep reservoir of oil, and have a shape that corresponds with the wedge radiator intake plenum. Basically what is being proposed is simply extending the sump downward. After removing the baffles that are bolted to the inside of the stock tank and the low level sensor, the bottom of the tank can be drilled as required to form an oil air separator and to provide an opening for the modified 13B pick up. Then the wedge sump is added (welded) to the the stock pan. The wedge sump would be .063 steel. Obviously, there is plenty of room to modify this picture depending on the particular installation. For example, if one did not intend to put the rad underneath, the tank would not require the wedge shape.This looks like a job most of us could do easily in our own shops. Jerry
renesis wedge pan2.jpg
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