I am having a clearance problem with a set of Harold Johnsons Shorty headers on a 64 A-Body. I am thinking about deleting the oil filter as the car only runs about 150 miles each year at the drag strip. I am told that Offenhouser (not sure about spelling) used to sell a delete plate and plug for the side of the block. My worry is that I might be doing something goofy and cause an oil flow problem. I would appreciate any feed back especially from someone who's done this. I also plan to run a magnetic drain plug to collect metals. Thanks in advance.

I would look at a remote oil filter set up before I would delete it all together. I put 90* fittings and run lines to a filter on my Demon.

Aside from whether it is a good move or not to do it you'd want to plug all three ports (1 will already have a NPT plug) then from the oil sending unit hole in the top of the block drive the cup down & out of the #5 main bearing saddle after removeing the oil pump/#5 main cap. Now the oil will go straight up from the #5 cap then make a right turn into the pass (main) horizontle oiling gallery without being diverted sideways out to/from the filter.

Remember that those old engines had babbit (soft)bearings which could accomodate debris in the oil and the engines had 7:1 compression ratios and ran at 3600-4000 rpm.

Bad Idea.

this is my prototype for clearing the power rack. it looks like it will work.

56 I believe almost all came with filters.Last car I worked on without a filter was a 55.Every one after that had a filter.Most were the cartridge type that sat in a canister.My 57 Chrysler was a real pain.I went to a spin on with adapter from Hot Heads.Rocky