Originally Posted by Cab_Burge
Originally Posted by Get-X
Originally Posted by fast68plymouth
Fwiw...... for what the OP is doing with the motor, I would have used the HV pump from the start.


I use a HV pump on anything other than stock pan engines. They have a tendency to run stock pans dry, which is never good wrench

I've heard this many times and as long as I verified that the pickup was within 3/16 from the bottom of the oil pan(through the drain plugs) on stock OEM 4,5 and 6 quart stock pans I never saw that happen confused
I have seen it happen on a motor with a 7.5 quart deep sump pan that the owner used the "correct' pickup that came with the pan that was right at 1.5 inches up from the bottom the oil pan shruggy It would loose oil pressure at the end of a 1/4 mile run when he let off tsk
Murphy lurks waiting to mess with us car guys, especially drag racers whistling whiney


I had it happen in two of my cars. I had a '69 383 RR that I installed a HV pump on and I also had a similar problem on my GTX. Both had stock pans and pick-ups, and both stopped having the problem when I overfilled the oil. I swapped out the pump on the GTX and no more problem. I ended up selling the RR and just ran it with extra oil until the new owner picked it up. In the interest of full disclosure, I never checked either pick-up to pan clearance to know where they were at? Maybe I'm just unlucky, LOL! shruggy

'65 Belvedere
'68 GTX
'57 Dodge pickup