About the B6T's stock oilpan: You will need to clearance a flange off the back part of the oilpan bellhousing. This is because this flange is half blocking the output socket that the festiva CV axle goes on the festy tranny. I made a template from the Festy tranny to clearance the oilpan, I basically cut off the entire flange. Cam used the B3 oilpan, and just welded on a bung for the turbo's oil return line. I could have done this, since I have a welder, however, I like the B6T oilpan, first it is finned aluminum, that will shed heat better then the steel B3 unit, it has internal baffles that the B3 pan does not, and a greater capacity for oil, not to mention that the oil drains etc are already run. The pic above is of the template

This pic shows how much flange I removed.

Just another shot of the oil pan clearance.

Author: Chris Rummel

Chris's B6T Swap Pg 23 - Chris's B6T Swap Pg 25

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