5.7 in Alterktion-which oil pan?

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I have never seen one on a car just reporting what my customer said--he had an E body BUT...when I called those guys it was laughable how little they seemed to know--could have had the janitor on the phone for all I know--not aiming to start any trouble here ....

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5.7 pans that work - the weldtech I'm told, haven't seen one though. The Charlie's pan fits, rear sump steel truck pan fits, there's also a rear sump finned alum pan that Bouchillon sells, I think it's a mopar export pan, similar to the SRT Cherokee pans - hangs a little low though.
The Milodon 5.7 pan clears the manual rack, but a power steering system hits by 1/16". Request offset rack bushings to drop it 1/4" to provide 3/16" clearance.

...The milodon 30930 pan on a bigblock clears power racks by an easy 1/2" or better, unless a thick stud girdle drops the pan that distance, in which case 1/4" offset motor mount bushings should be used to bring the engine up a hair. These bushings are also aluminum, which is better to use - if a bigblock is making enough power to need a girdle, it's pushing the limits of using motor mounts anyway. The 30930 pan is built from the 971 pan stamping - 971 and Mil30930 are the same exact pans, although we have nearly all the pans ever made on the shelf here for testing. The original suspension back in '99 was designed around the 971 pan, which is the base pan design for Milodon and Moroso pans because it clears the K frames in all cars, including the trucks and early B bodies. The 971 stamping has since been discontinued, so Moroso now uses the street hemi stamping and moves the sump back further on the pan to clear the early B's. The Milodon pans still have the same 971 shape, so I have to assume they stamp their own. I don't deal directly with Milodon, so I'm not sure. Personally, on bigblocks, I like Milodon's road race oil pan - wider, baffled sump, and only 5.5" deep - loads of ground clearance.

More on the subject though, on a 5.7, I'd prefer to use the steel truck pan, which isn't quite as deep, providing more ground clearance, and it clears the rack by a mile.
Charlie's does a long, drag style pan for us for the bigblocks that I'd like to see for all engines for lots of oil without hitting the ground. Perhaps the WeldTech pans are similar?

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