I don't know if it's true or not, but I was once told that an old superstock trick was draining the oil and running it, less windage I suppose but bye bye motor. Maybe someone else could confirm or deny that?

3 quarts maybe but no oil wouldn`t fly I would think.......

Thumper
Back in early 70's Gene Snow ran a funny car and Wolf's head Racing Oil ran an add in National Dragster and several magazines at the time. Stating he drained the oil to change it, but forgot to put the new oil in to complete the change. Then he made a full run down the track as I remember it and had no issues when he pulled it apart back in the pits. Not sure if it was true or not, but he swore by it.

That was common on both SS and modified Chevy racers I never heard of any BB Mopar racers doing that I did have one of the better SO CA dyno shops make a comment on loosing HP by adding one aditional quart of oil one of my 440 motors I was dynoing there and they where shocked when adding the fifth quart didn't make any measureable differences in torque or HP on that motor They did a lot of dynoing NHRA Chevy and Ford class motors, SS, Comp and blown alcholol motors They did share that using the zero weight Royal Purple synthetiic oils in a N/A Comp eliminator motor was good for one pass only, those motors would run faster the first pass on that oil and break on the second pass if you didn't change it That was back in the late 1990s and early 2000s Maybe things are better now with those type oils