Hello everyone. I'm building a 410 (360-040 stroker small block; car used mostly for competition road course and pylon racing, but also street/hwy driven. Hughes/SCAT all forged assembly with Eagle H-beam rods. Multiple problems:

1. Milodon windage tray, with their 4-stud kit, now installed, but had to shorten/cut the 4 studs by about 7/16"each so they would not hit the road race Milodon oil pan... at every (all 4) stud point.... OK... done.

2. Milodon windage tray needed MAJOR re-configuration to clear the H-beam rods (cap screws). ALL of the tray's openings needed to be cut/ground away, then re-shaped for windage capture/drainage, then multiple radius pounding with a ball-peen hammer on a wide open vice needed to be radius'd in to further clear the rotation of the rods/cap screws... spent an easy 10+ hours doing this... OK, done now... all rods/cap screws now clear with approximate 1/16"-1/8" clearances.

3. Milodon windage tray needed further opening and re-configuration for the Milodon road race oil pic-up tube.... OK... done now.

4. Milodon road race oil pan will not clear and fit properly over the Melling HV72 oil pump!!!... hits in lower corner of the pan. I've confirmed this is only the oil pump-to-pan interference (not the pick up). Without the oil pump, the pan fits onto the block perfectly; with the oil pump, it is off by about 3/16" from allowing all the pan to seat flatly to the block's rails (rear), as well as aligning with ALL the bolt holes. I've checked the rear oil pan depth vs my original factory pan... same. BUT, there is definite interference of the oil pump to the pan (visible marks of scratching). So, I've attempted to file away and re-radius the corner of the oil pump... helped a little. Next, spending time pounding that oil pan corner out... helped a little more, but still have to continue... hope I can make it to fit.

So, has anyone had similar above experiences with the setup that I have?

PS: I had called the Milodon Tech Line before I purchased the Windage tray and stud-kit (just the 4-studs they offer), asked if there was anything I should know about the overall assembly... "...Nope.. just put it all together." Surprise after surprise! Very disappointing from Milodon -- thought they were a quality company.