ok, i don't want to start crap, but i gotta get a second opinion on this. here's the story. some of you may know my car has been at ips (for near two years now) getting the engine rebuilt and some other upgrades. well i went home over thanksgiving (i'm in florida, the car is in ohio, obviously). i drove the car around to get the 500 break-in miles on it. after some inspection, i found this oil pan dent (among other things). when i took the car back to IPS (for the final tuning on the emanage, etc.) i informed jeff of the dent, and that it wasn't like that when i dropped the car off back in jan. 2006. but i didn't know when it occured, because this is really the first time i've crawled under the car since before then. he told me he'd look at it. that was saturday. i get a call today from mike. he says it's not dented. it looks identical to a new oil pan sitting next to him. after that i go and start looking at the picture i had taken last week (the one i posted above), and made this thread, and looked for an "undented" oil pan picture. then i give them a call back. mike and i go back and forth a bit about wether it's dented or not. in the end, he's going to send me some pictures and i'm going to send him some pictures to show what we're both talking about, since i can't be there in person. he does say that, if i want, he will drop the pan and take measurements between the pickup and the pan etc, but if it's not out of spec than i'd get charged for the labor. he also mentioned that i shouldn't have any problems with it being the way it is. i do have good oil pressure. better than i'd ever seen during the year and a half i had the car before it went to IPS (granted it's on the stock guage, but it's considerably higher).
i just dug around on my desktop (which i drug out of storage, i'm living in a hotel currently) and found an old picture of my oil pan, back from july 2004:
it seems quite clear that it's not dented. they've assured me that the pan on there now is my original that came with the car. so should i really be concerned about this? am i getting screwed here? please don't make this a "bash ips" or "bash name_your_shop" thread. i really just need some other opinions on this. the car is scheduled to to go on the dyno to get tuned any time now. today or tomorrow.
