How much Oil you guys running in your B/ RB pans?

I have a custom made deep stock pan running a milodon single line static pickup. I dumped 10 quarts of rotella in there to get it to full on the stick. To me that sounds like too much oil which will rob power no? Do you think i should run less oil and not go by the dipstick

Man, that is one big pan you have there....One of the benefits of a deep sump pan is that you can get the oil down away from the crankshaft and subsequently the dipstick, which would then read low.

This was a stock pan that you cut and extended?

I would think 7 or 8 quarts would be sufficient, but check it out. How high do you rev it? How far is the pick up off the bottom of the pan?

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I dumped 10 gallons of rotella in there

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Now that's a deep pan!