pterfloth

Nice of you to step in Jake! Your a real asset to this forum. I know I'm not the only one who appreciates your input.

pterfloth

I haven't had to pay any duty either! I'm down there every week too picking up goodies for the Pcar and gas. Today was some Lloyds floor mats and Friday my aluminum pedals should arrive.

pmkazz

GNR996,

Changing the subject... Please explain your Avatar. The gal in the picture is amazing.....

jasper

Ugh - I wish

I just did an oil change a week ago. I'll be throwing away 8 litres of perfectly good Motul.

The price for a stock sump plate new from Pelican is $164 by the way. Add $13 for the sealing goop, and shipping is free so $177 total.

If i buy Jakes plate for $75 he's going to need at least $10 to ship it, and I still need a tube of goop which will be $20 by the time it's shipped and picked up so.....

If it's too late to cancel my order the addn'l costs is not too great. My savings would be about $65 - nothing to sneeze at (thanks Jake) but not that big of a dent.

If I cancel I was thinking about the X51 pan too. That's $250 delivered. What do you think Jake and the rest of you...worth the addn'l cost?

jeneric996

X51 is nice but is probably overkill on the streets. It's hard to beat $75 for Jake's.

jasper

Thanks Jeneric - I will track it a bit thoug...plus I intend to take this motor to at least 300,000 kilometres. It has about 120,000 km now.

I can answer that for Geoff - being as he's a good friend of mine and all.

That would be the famous Catherine Bell. Not sure what she's famous for, besides the obvious. To the best of my knowledge Geoff does not actually know this woman...

pmkazz

Well she is obviously famous Thanks.....

GNR996

Jasper is correct of course.

when I first starting viewing this forum there was a thread of woman and Porsche's so wanting to join in I found this pic of CB, I like it for my avatar obviously..a guy can dream can't he..

Topaz330ci

I consider you lucky. A puddle of oil under my car would scare the **** out of me! Out of all the things it could be, I would celebrate that it's just and oil pan!

Cheers!!

jasper

Agreed, and particularly lucky that the fix both inexpensive and mechanically easy.

Byprodriver

Catherine Bell became famous when she starred on J.A.G. as a Marine Corps Colonel. I had the pleasure of meeting & driving her when I worked for Jaguar in 2002. At the time she owned a Porsche, 993 I think, from the picture it looks like she has upgraded. She owned a motorcycle also.

jasper

Thanks everybody, especially Jake for the low cost offer, but I've ordered the X51 pan. My resoning:

1) It may save my motor at the track one day.

2) My philosophy has always been to replace stock parts with upgraded parts.

3) Bragging rights.

I may post some photos of the fitment...but probably not if it's a night time job.

redridge

CB can sit on my fried eggs anytime...



BTW.... try to wait till the seal is dry before putting in fresh oil, I waited overnight to top it off.

PelicanParts.com

For what it's worth, here's my tech article on the replacement of the sump, for future reference: http://www.pelicanparts.com/techarti...-deep_sump.htm

-Wayne

DreamCarrera

Jasper, I think the X51 was a good choice especially since you track the car. Good luck replacing the pan. Look at it this way, you'll be getting more dirt out with this oil change by R&R the pan.

I find it hard to believe this type of thing doesn't happen more often as the oil pan on these cars sits so low to the ground, especially on lowered cars.