Help with oiling setup

Can you weld and have a extra oil pan?

You know where I'm going with this. It would be what I would do on the cheap....and yet effective.

LOL i do know where you are going with this. Yes i have a welder, but i don't even have a car pan that i need yet, just the stock truck pan. Are you suggesting i deepen the sump? add a baffle? or both?


you don't need really any oil mods with that rpm.
you won't be i those rpms that long, and even then....7k is nothing.

A deep baffled pan, or even stock 'baffled pan with a stock melling oil pump is fine and won't eat up a much HP as a high volume or higher pressure unit will.

the clearances you have are not big, so they also do not justify a high volume/pressure oil pump.

another thing....when take off from the line or are just generally accelerating, all the oil is g forced to the back of the motor [directing this at the valley] so DON'T drill holes in the vallet for drainage cause it all gos to the back and drians down like it's supposed to do anyways. when guys drill hole all over the valley they forget that now the oil is gonna 'somewhat' drain down onto the crank now and cause windage/aeration of the oil before it hit the sump again.

you want it to drain down the back of the valley into the sump cause then it's off the crank.

if you run a 90* filter, work on it, smooth the bends in the orifaces.

and if you do decide you have to do mods just because you want to...do the hard line cross over in the valley and plug the no 1 main feed from the pass side.

get a book and it will show you.

All very good tips, thank you. I actually have 3 different books that ive completely read, and between the slight differences in those and what guys on the net recommend, its kinda hard to decide what route i should go. I will not be going crazy on the oiling mods since this is no race motor anyways, but i will try to employ some of the little tricks here and there. No 90 degree filter and basically stockish clearances on the rods and mains.

My biggest concern though is at the higher rpms, with the stock pump, will i run out of oil using a stock depth car pan? How much would i benefit from the deep aftermarket pan? I do have the factory windage tray that came with the motor, was going to open the slots a bit and use it, but is it of any benefit? so many conflicting opinons these days lol