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Does your pan have a kick out? Are you running a crank scaper?
My personal experience is the fuel plate is the best spot especially if you are pushrod oiling.
The pan has a Kick out, a screen style scraper, and it is oiled thru the push rods. On initial fire up it filled the reservoir for the vacuum pump in about 10 minutes of running and puked it out the top. Thought it would be great location. The cam and crank (even though they are perfectly round in this area) must grab more oil than I would have thought.
Doug
How deep is the pan?
I had a deep Charlies pan when I had my 588 in the Plymouth. It was about 9 inches deep with a kick out. I ran about 7 quarts in that pan.
Now I have a dragster style in my Barracuda. It is 5.25 inches deep and I have the same problem as you. I am planning to add a kick out and a scaper.
I have talked to lots of people and they all agree get the oil away from the crank as far as possible.
Having a properly designed oil pan with a scraper and some form of a windage tray is the way to go.
BTW how much vaccumm are you trying to pull?
Mike
Last edited by hvyweight; 12/24/12 09:36 PM.
