PRI 2025: Milodon’s Gen 3 Hemi Oil Pan Solves a Problem No One Wants to Talk About

The LS has become the small-block Chevy of the 2020s—everybody’s got one, and sometimes we are tired of looking at them. But tucked away at the PRI Show this year was something refreshingly different: a company that still builds everything in-house in southern California, and has been quietly solving oiling problems for 25 years. And now Milodon has turned its attention to the Gen 3 Hemi in a big way.

These guys started back when the Gen 3 Hemi was brand-new, building steel tooling to replace the factory cast parts and designing oil pans to drop those engines into literally anything—Fords, hot rods, you name it. If you’ve got a swap idea, they probably have a pan for it. But what really caught our attention this year was a brand-new Gen 3 Hemi oil pan designed specifically for late-model Challengers and Chargers (PN 31033), including Hellcats (PN 31034).

Because let’s be honest: you’ve got guys making 1,000+ horsepower on the regular and they’re still running stock oil pans. And that’s a bad thing—cars running in the 8s at 185 mph were blowing oil into the breathers every pass. Not ideal.

Once they bolted on the new pan? The breather issue basically disappeared. That’s the kind of result you don’t have to interpret. It’s just fixed.

So what’s the magic? It comes down to two things: keeping oil in the sump under hard acceleration and having a windage tray that actually works. The new pan is a front sump, so as soon as you leave the line—and even in a street car with a decent 60-foot—the G-forces shove oil to the back. This design keeps the oil where it needs to be using an 8-inch deep sump with 7 quarts of capacity.

The windage tray design goes all the way back to the factory Drag Pak cars. Those early Super Stock guys were spinning 8,000 rpm and having serious oiling problems. This tray solved everything—kept oil off the crank, reduced windage, freed up horsepower, and just made the whole system happier according to Steve Morrison at Milodon.

Pair the Gen 3 Hemi oil pan, tray, and pickup together and you get a massive improvement in oil control, all without sacrificing ground clearance or capacity. And yes—Summit has them in stock right now.

If you’re running a Gen 3 Hemi, especially a boosted one, Milodon’s Gen 3 Hemi oil pan might be one of the easiest wins you can bolt onto your car. And honestly? About time somebody gave these engines the oiling system they deserve.