Then it was getting the engine off the stand to change out the rear sump pan for the center sump 392 pan. The pans aren’t reproduced so I had to find a good used one. The fortunately that wasn’t too hard.

zz Pans by M Patterson, on Flickr


Unfortunately the pickup is no longer available new, and even decent used ones are hard to find. The profile of the 392 pan is similar to the 64 and up small block pans. I’m also using one of Hot Heads High Volume oil pumps (a modified 340 oil pump with a spacer). The SB pickups are readily available new I decided to see if that could be made to work.

pickup by M Patterson, on Flickr

Turns out it actually fits pretty well.

zz PU 3 by M Patterson, on Flickr

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