Guess I never really followed up on this one. Remember my fittment issues with the oil pan? Against my better judgement, I sent it back to Charlies (on my dime) with the known issues of the oil deflector hitting the main studs (it was about 1 1/2" to high) and the massive amount of bolt holes that didn't line up. Charlie said that he would jump right on it as soon as it hit his door....well I had to call and remind him that he received it five days previous to my call and it should have been back to me (remember I sent this on my dime). So, I get it back and the oil deflector was lowered....about 1/2" (it does just barely clear now) and the bolt holes don't look like they were touched at all. I even sent a full size template to match the holes to and I guess it was just to difficult to make it fit! No way, no how will this thing fit on a engine and bolt down. I can get a maximum of six studs in it and the rest of the holes needed to be oblonged by as much as 1/8". How many hours do you think it takes to make a Charlies pan fit properly?

Before anyone bashes.....again; I contacted the vendor, described the problem, sent back (on my dime), vendor screwed around for a week with it, finally got it back and it still doesn't fit without alot of work from me.

This will be the last pan I ever get from Charlies. At this point, I want my money back due to the terrible workmanship. If I didn't get a dime back for the 8 hours it took me to make it fit, I still have $600 in it. I should have gone with the Williams pan for $25 more, but I wasn't sure I would have it this year.

There Brett.....how is that for an update?

Oh, I also had to send my balancer back to ATI since it has the integrated trigger wheel in the front shell. When I moved the crank trigger from the drivers side to the passenger side I couldn't get any magnets to line up with the pick up in the entire adjustment range. Ended up having to have ATI make a new one....cost almost as much as another balancer. I will never do that again. Just use the standard balancer and trigger wheel from now on since I would have only had to rotate the wheel to align magnets. Live and learn. Anyone need a 3 ring, driver side timing, 7" trigger shell with magnets starting at 30 degrees? They are only $250 new....

Well it's an update......So sad what is acceptable in the perfrmance aftermarket world.


I still need some pictures to look at.

Well here is pic for you. LoL

W9 to look at...... Maybe down the road.

420 on the car...

Glad to see you got rid of that RED Intake Brett Lol

That looks like a W8 exhaust port to me... But who am i?

Yes that is set of Coleman truck w8s I am fixing up.

U might get a local call on those.

Let's get back on topic and see some more of Brian's pictures.






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Shame you had a problem with Charlies pans. He always did a great job fast for us. I had alot of mods I wanted on mine he did them all.
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I will complete this post with pictures later, but to bring everyone up to date we finally made some passes. Most notable changes was Brett Miller's CNC intake ports and hand ported exhaust port, a new cam speced by Brett and a happy valvetrain. Again, I can't say enough about how much knowledge Brett has with the W8/W9 stuff. I know there was HP gained in a few other areas, but it was small compared to the heads and cam.

Previous best (with SDSS special assembly) was 5.85/116 1/8th mile.

New best (with my amature build skills) 5.50/125 1/8th mile.

And, BTW this was crossing the scales at 2878# race weight. New best was this past Saturday with -495' DA mineshaft conditions. The even better news is that the Racepak data shows room for improvement.

The rest of the pictures, a few videos and time slips to follow.