Greg, while you are having this plate made…
If you add three 6MM, threaded with inserts, holes just south of the
three holes in the top of the drawing, you or anyone else, can either install
the Renesis OR the stock 13B oil pan.
The original holes are used to bolt the plate to the engine and the
three additional holes will accommodate three of the 13B oil pan bolts.
If you install the Renesis pan, the three holes for the 13B are covered up.
I can’t tell you the dimensions for the three holes, but you
could get them off a 13B oil pan. This allows 5 quarts of oil in the
sump, plus whatever is in the cooler, engine, etc. I haven’t done
it yet, but I expect that it will take 7 quarts to change the oil in my engine
with this setup.
Bill B
Hi, I started the engine mount for my RV8 with Renesis
engine today. Copying the basic design of the CCI mount for which I was
ripped off, I bought some Al plate 0.5" thick to fit between sump and
engine and made a CAD drawing so the water jet cutters can finish it off.
I've attached the drawing for anyone interested. I haven't had it plotted
to full size scale yet so there may be some errors.
With some of the excess Al I'll make a spacer to fit between
the oil pickup and engine so the pickup is lowered by the same amount as
the plate. The oil pickup uses an O ring for a seal so I'll get the spacer
machined to take an O ring as well. The drawing shows 2 spacers I thought
I may as well have a spare since it's just scrap material.