How did you distinguish between:
1. no oil in the pan, and
2. plenty of oil but doesn't cover the pickup at that moment
Being very fed up with folklore, on my next project I'm marking levels in my pan, installing a temporary sight tube on the side of it
and will physically watch the fluid level at 7000 rpm with a camera. If it "sucks the pan dry" or if "there are two quarts of oil in each valve
cover at high rpm" I will physically see it.
original poster, pls let us know how it's going and what you find in there.
