There are a lot of people in this thread making assumptions or hating on designs they don't fully understand.
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Originally Posted by Blue Shadow
I am looking on the photos and do not see ports for an oil cooler. Will there be one or provisions to install one?
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It could be a water-to-oil heat exchanger just like on EJ engines.
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Originally Posted by Jack Black
Stamped steel oil pan is a bit of a throwback. All my newer cars made have had cast aluminum.
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How do you know it isn't magnesium? You do know that they have been using magnesium oil pans for years right?
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Originally Posted by Crashoverride
With the headers so close to the oil pan aren't they worried about coking.... basicly boiling and charing the oil in the pan....  which causes rings to fail, and carbon buildup through the motor. |
There may be heat shields for it that have been removed for display purposes.
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Originally Posted by Alfie
NASTY looking header, can't wait to see a better design there!
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What are you talking about? It's separating the exhaust ports according to the firing order. It's basically an OEM 4-2-1 header designed to eliminate interference from the blowdown pulses. That's why the front and rear cylinders combine into separate tubes. How else could you do it besides tweaking the runner lengths a bit? Space is tight... I guarantee you that those headers will last much much longer than almost any aftermarket piece. Look at those flex pipes. It's probably a dual-wall design too, which is better at holding heat in.
And yes there is a cat... you can't build a car that doesn't pass emissions standards. So you could pick up a few HP by changing it out for a less restrictive one, assuming that it won't throw a code when you do so.