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Originally Posted by CWIweldace
How would that work? Every vehicle i've ever had that had an oil cooler had it mounted in front of the radiator along with a/c and tranny cooler so that air can flow through it just like the radiator. I would be surprised if even the return line were attached to the pan. A pan doesn't have a lot of structural integrity. That's why the drain plug is the only thing on the panunless they have some new technology. Anything pressed or welded to a thing member like a oil pan is what is known as a stress riser and has a higher probability of propagating a crack. Do you have the pictures you refer to? Not trying to start an argument. Trying to be a constructive part of this discussion.
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How about this......
The oil pan used on the Camaro LS3 is quite a bit different than the one used on LS1s in the 4 Gen cars and it's different from the one used by the LS3 when it was introduced on the Corvette for 2008. The Camaro pan is a bit bigger inside holding a additional two quarts of oil compared to the Vette LS3. Otherwise, the pan is similar in concept to other Gen 3/4 oil pans in that, besides holding all the oil, it acts as a sound insulator and add some rigidity to the bottom of the block. In addition, the Camaro LS3 has an engine oil cooler because, according to ACE Ron Meegan, "...of the (vehicle) weight and the (reduced) air flow around the engine in this package, some of the more aggressive driving modes required us to use a cooler to meet our oil temperature requirements." The Camaro oil cooler is the same type of oil-to-coolant heat exchanger used by the supercharged LSA in the Cadillac CTS-V and it is mounted in a similar location, on the left side of the oil pan.