440 Oil Pressure Issues..

yellow rose said

Then Tom Hoover is wrong. Always was wrong about that, and will always be wrong about that.

That style pick up is not meant to be away from the pan floor. You move it off the floor and it won't pull oil.

As for the Super Stock pan...it doesn't use a stock style pickup, so yes, .250-.375 is correct.

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My alum pan did use a stock pick up, I extended it w/ 1/2'' pipe. I bolted the pan up, hanging off the side of the block, used a rosebud tip to bend the extension to fit and custom cut the length. Worked for 14 yrs, like I said. I don`t want to start a pissing match, but I `d take the "grand father" of the hemi`s word over a reg. machinist mech. any day, He was instrumental in the development and testing the dam thing to start with. He was in on the original idea to bring back the hemi heads to a bigger and later block. The guy was a genius ! I f u ever talked to him, or attended one of his dragracing seminars , u would agree!
How come the 440 I built my 505 out of had almost the same clearance, bone stock, never tore down before ?? It was a little over 1/4".. Oughta here------