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10-18-2011, 08:39 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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Gentlemen,
We will start delivering the billet pans this week 
Thanks for all the orders. Our mill will be tied up for a long, long time.
David
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10-18-2011, 10:41 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by David Kirkham
Gentlemen,
We will start delivering the billet pans this week
Thanks for all the orders. Our mill will be tied up for a long, long time.
David
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Then its time for another new mill. No? 
The new one can punch out all those billet license plate frames inscribed with "Kirkham for Governor" 
I'd drive around with one, not sure how much good it would would do you down here in Aus, but happy to give it a go...
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11-17-2011, 07:54 PM
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Any oil pans shipped yet? I'm still awaiting mine. David, sent you an email on the gmail account but no reply. |
11-17-2011, 09:47 PM
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We have started shipping oil pans. Sorry I have not answered, as I am in DC. I am one of the national members on the Tea Party Debt Commission. |
11-17-2011, 09:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Racer_X
Any oil pans shipped yet? I'm still awaiting mine. David, sent you an email on the gmail account but no reply. |
David is busy raising hell in DC today |
11-17-2011, 09:55 PM
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David, Thanks for the reply and Thank you for serving on the Tea Party Debt Commission. I knew you are heavily involved and appreciate it. I just didn't want it to be lost if it had already shipped
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11-17-2011, 10:02 PM
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David is busy raising hell in DC today |
Harry Reid kicked us out of the Senate Building today. Hillsdale College was kind enough to offer us a room to hold our meeting anyway. It was standing room only. It was a great day.
David
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11-17-2011, 10:32 PM
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Harry Reid kicked us out of the Senate Building today.
Next time don't bathe for a few days and chant anti-American slogans. Harry loves that kind of stuff and would probably put you up at his place.
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11-17-2011, 10:35 PM
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When im leaving Vegas, heading back to Phoenix, there is an abandond copper mine just before Searchlight, NV, that someone spray painted on it, HARRY REIDS AN ASS, it makesme laugh everytime, Searchlight is Harry's hometown. 
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03-21-2012, 04:29 PM
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So I changed my oil for the first time with this new billet aluminum oil pan. When I took the drain plug out and the oil rushed out, I thought I had most of it out. It seemed like not very much, but the thought never occurred to me that the trap door in the center of the pan was holding back the oil from the other three chambers. The oil was flowing into the trap like it was supposed to, and not leaking out of the trap, like it was designed to do.
Anyway, with out thinking about it, I decided to take the pan off, just because I could, and I'd wanted to see the inside of the engine. So I pulled out all the bolts. To my surprise, that bottom piece of the pan felt rather heavy. It turns out, that the other three chambers were chuck full of oil, as was the center trap area. So basically I only drained maybe 3 quarts of oil from the drain plug, and there was about 6 more in the pan still.
I guess what I'm getting at here, is for those who have this new oil pan, when you change your oil, you may want to take the pan apart and get all of the oil out. Either that, or drain the oil when its hot, and let it sit for a few hour or over night, just to make sure you get all, or most of the oil out.
Imagine what would have happened had I not taken the pan off. I would have only drained 3 quarts, then I would have added 9 more to the system.
Anyway, call if you have questions.
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03-21-2012, 05:50 PM
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Sandwich, thanks for the heads up on draining the oil. Sounds like the pan and traps are doing the job they are intended to do. |
03-22-2012, 10:52 AM
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Perhaps you need more drain plugs?
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Originally Posted by Sandwich
So I changed my oil for the first time with this new billet aluminum oil pan. When I took the drain plug out and the oil rushed out, I thought I had most of it out. It seemed like not very much, but the thought never occurred to me that the trap door in the center of the pan was holding back the oil from the other three chambers. The oil was flowing into the trap like it was supposed to, and not leaking out of the trap, like it was designed to do.
Anyway, with out thinking about it, I decided to take the pan off, just because I could, and I'd wanted to see the inside of the engine. So I pulled out all the bolts. To my surprise, that bottom piece of the pan felt rather heavy. It turns out, that the other three chambers were chuck full of oil, as was the center trap area. So basically I only drained maybe 3 quarts of oil from the drain plug, and there was about 6 more in the pan still.
I guess what I'm getting at here, is for those who have this new oil pan, when you change your oil, you may want to take the pan apart and get all of the oil out. Either that, or drain the oil when its hot, and let it sit for a few hour or over night, just to make sure you get all, or most of the oil out.
Imagine what would have happened had I not taken the pan off. I would have only drained 3 quarts, then I would have added 9 more to the system.
Anyway, call if you have questions.
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10-08-2012, 06:45 AM
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Cobra Make, Engine: CSX 6022, navy blue, period correct 427 SO
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What gaskets do you recommend for these pans? Any tips specific to this pan for a leak free installation?
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10-08-2012, 08:30 AM
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Does anybody have an old pan they want to sell?
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10-08-2012, 09:19 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dcdoug
What gaskets do you recommend for these pans? Any tips specific to this pan for a leak free installation?
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The pans come with an o-ring seal. We don't use gaskets.
As for "leak free," well--it is an FE.
David
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10-08-2012, 10:00 AM
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Does anybody have an old pan they want to sell?
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We have a few of them. We even have some of our 1st prototypes from aluminum that aren't welded together yet (before we decided to go from billet).
David
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10-08-2012, 05:01 PM
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We have a few of them. We even have some of our 1st prototypes from aluminum that aren't welded together yet (before we decided to go from billet).
David
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11-11-2012, 07:22 PM
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What is the right dipstick tube and dipstick for this pan? The one I had on my Canton pan had a threaded connection from the tube to the pan.
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11-11-2012, 08:04 PM
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We use a very common Big Block Chevy dipstick from the local parts house--just cut to length.
David
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11-12-2012, 08:00 AM
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OK, this is probably a stupid question, but how does the bottom of the tube seal to the pan since the pan fitting is smooth and not threaded? 
I did find the Spectre 5720 dipstick reference on the Kirkham site.
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