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15.25 mm for 3/8"bsp 14.75 mm for 3/8" bspt. If your worried about the drill swarf as said above fill the drill flutes with grease and you will have no dramas, don't forget the swarf from the tap also, grease in the flutes of the tap will work there aswell. Personally I would weld the fitting into the sump.