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Old Oct 22, 2003 | 05:31 PM
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Default Anyone used OBX Oil Pans?

Well, while looking for a Moroso oil pan for my EG project I ran accross this:



Heh, 155 bucks.... hell of a lot better than the 350+ I was looking at. Anyone know if these suck or what? I'd hate to buy it and have it **** oil out of the welds. OBX is well known for knocking **** off I spose. You can barely see it on the backside, but it has oil return bung for turbo and another bung for temp sender.... which is why I'm REALLY interested in it.
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Old Oct 22, 2003 | 05:42 PM
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Don't know about the oil pans, but their headers suck ***!
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Old Oct 22, 2003 | 05:44 PM
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Thats a fact.... my cousin went against my advice and bought one and a primary cracked off!
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Old Oct 22, 2003 | 06:06 PM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by GimpyAccord &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> You can barely see it on the backside, but it has oil return bung for turbo and another bung for temp sender.... which is why I'm REALLY interested in it.</TD></TR></TABLE>

That is interesting, can anyone vouch for this oil pan. I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who would like to say something bad about it.

I would definitely be in the market for something like this though, hopefully we can get some more input here...bump.
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Old Oct 22, 2003 | 06:14 PM
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Well, for 155 i MIGHT be willing to see how it is. Worse case scenario I feel like a dumb *** and use my stock pan anyway and get a Moroso. Still would like to see a vouch for this... its a new product and not even on their webpage yet.
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Old Oct 23, 2003 | 07:16 AM
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bump for this ridiculous scrolling forum.

i went ahead and ordered one, it also comes with a deeper pickup.

let ya guys know if it sucks or what
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Old Oct 23, 2003 | 07:32 AM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by GimpyAccord &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">bump for this ridiculous scrolling forum.

i went ahead and ordered one, it also comes with a deeper pickup.

let ya guys know if it sucks or what </TD></TR></TABLE>

Ah, its good to have guinea pigs!

Very curious how this turns out.
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Old Oct 23, 2003 | 07:35 AM
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Ya me too

This is the last thing I'm missing for my supah-ghetto-td05-wunder-mobile-turbo

anyway... ya... uhh... it better not leak
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Old Oct 23, 2003 | 07:36 AM
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I'm curious too...keep us posted, I need a new pan for my D series....
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Old Oct 30, 2003 | 03:52 PM
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Any updates Gimpy?
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Old Oct 30, 2003 | 04:00 PM
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You are a braver guy than i am. i wouldnt trust any obx products on my car. Keep us posted and let us know what happens
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Old Oct 30, 2003 | 04:03 PM
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ive had a cat back OBX exhaust sytem on my old car, loud as a mo fo, but still
it got some gains, and pipin was nice, no leaks/rusts
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Old Oct 30, 2003 | 07:16 PM
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an oil pan is an oil pan...thats how i look at it...im pretty sure its better then your stock one...and 155 isnt that bad...
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Old Oct 30, 2003 | 07:19 PM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by AznRexBoi00 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">an oil pan is an oil pan...thats how i look at it...im pretty sure its better then your stock one...and 155 isnt that bad...</TD></TR></TABLE>


hahahahahahaha, thats funny you know how many things can go worng with an oil pan ALOT and ur motor depends on that ****
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Old Oct 30, 2003 | 07:20 PM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Evil_gambit33 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">You are a braver guy than i am. i wouldnt trust any obx products on my car. Keep us posted and let us know what happens</TD></TR></TABLE>

My sentiments exactly. Especially something as importiant as an oil pan. I would like to know how this works out though!
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Old Oct 30, 2003 | 07:20 PM
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I've ran strut bars, header, cat back exhaust and shifters from OBX, never a problem, and felt the improvements from all.

As opposed to seeing Neuspeed shifters snap in half and a Tanabe B pipe snap in half.

OBX is damn near the expensive product quality, w/o the name brand weld on it, to make it cheaper. I'm not one to buy cheap parts, but when I started in this world of Hondas, I didn't know much about quality or brands, so I bought what was affordable at the time. My CRX was from OBX, H&R, and Tokico. I'd take my CRX back over my EH any day.
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Old Oct 30, 2003 | 07:21 PM
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cheap.someoen should get it and post more pictures of the welds etc.
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Old Oct 30, 2003 | 10:32 PM
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obx is crap, go do some searches on obx turbo manifolds
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Old Oct 30, 2003 | 11:01 PM
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i wonder why OBX went from manufacturing rice parts to oil pans now wtf...
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Old Oct 30, 2003 | 11:02 PM
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I sell OBX products & have had good service out of most of their stuff. I wouldn't advise using their headers though.
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Old Oct 31, 2003 | 02:06 AM
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Thanks for taking one for the team gimpy, post pics, and reactions please.

I think OBX's saving grace is that they don't try to engineer their own products. Hopefully they make decent copies.

Their turbo manifolds are know to have the welds overheat and crack, the oil pan sees much lower temperatures. The one that I held in my hand the wastegate-merge was a ******* HACK JOB, but it could've been cleaned up.

Again, let us know.

I want to know what's up with their tial knockoff WGs, heheh

-PHiZ
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Old Oct 31, 2003 | 02:30 AM
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obx is shitty rice crap , but it suprised me to see they make an oil pan , iwouldnt rock it , but it looks ok , an engines lifeline is its oil supply , im not trusting that to an obx product.
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Old Oct 31, 2003 | 07:39 AM
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Heres the update: it hasnt arrived yet. Hopefully today or saturday???

Honestly guys, as long as the welds are sound you are blowing this way out of perportion. On my 95 Mustang I added side sloshers to my stock pan and I'm a totally bunk welder.... still works fine.

As far as the OBX turbo manifolds, it has been brought to my attention that alot of those are indeed *NOT* OBX turbo manifolds... they're a knock off if you can believe that ****! I know a coupel people who DO run their manifolds with good success and while you wouldnt see ME with one (I think the wastegate design is shitty) for the money even if it only lasted a year ...what the hell.
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Old Oct 31, 2003 | 08:16 AM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by mtber &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">obx is crap, go do some searches on obx turbo manifolds</TD></TR></TABLE>

I believe that's do to a lack of manifold bracing. And they also have an awesome warranty. All from what I recall (could be wrong) from reading the FI forum a while back.
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Old Oct 31, 2003 | 08:20 AM
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I have never used OBX products because they are crap.
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