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11-28-2008 #1
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How much clearance?
I dropped my motor into the car, LS1 with and H3 Oil pan, it barely clears. The oil pan is about an 1/16 of inch off the crossmember, so looks like i will have to shim the mounts somehow to yield more clearance. My question is how much clearance will i need? as anybody else ran into something similar?
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12-02-2008 #2
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Oh it should self clearance if needed. Actually I do not think you will have problems.
12-05-2008 #3
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Self clearance? not sure i know what that is?
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12-05-2008 #4
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An oil pan should have more clearance than that. How much depends on where it's close and what type of mounts used.
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I am sure you are right ...I figured people have run the H3 pan and S&P setup and would have had the same issue. Hoping for simple a answer...thanks for the replies!
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Theree are no simple answers here. If you are running flexible mounts that probably won't cut it. I'd shim the motor up to a 1/4inch.
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12-08-2008 #7
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Self clearance was a bad joke just meaning the pan will dimple where it hits. Solid or poly mounts (or shimming) would solve that.
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