New pan and oil pump came
01/04/2019
New oil pan came in 2 days so that's nice. I also decided to go with the standard volume oil pump and ditch the high volume pump. Reasoning is, it is a street car and might see some track use but this motor has at least 100k miles and will not last forever. As far as drag racing, I have to drive 2 hours into another state for my closest drag strip and I doubt I'll be doing that often.
Side note, I fully support "Long Island Needs A Drag Strip" and would use it regularly but realistically I doubt it will happen. Too much "not in my back yard here"
Back to the oil pump, people have had the high volume pump run dry, twisted a pump shaft or worn out the distributor gear. Some have not had any problems but I think just a stock replacement will do.
I will save it for a built 351w motor because I'd really have to plunk $130+ for a deep sump pan or a 7 Qt pan to use it and not worry.
I would trade this car for a 30s body 3 window or 5 window coupe even just a shell or roller. I fully intend on building one frame up with a fiberglass body. Frame kits are like 700 and glass bodies are 6k. Drive train and running gear and they can be had finished for 12-16k. I'd rather build it then by a made one. Now, should I repair and ebay the old pan or just mothball it? Probably just going to save it.
New oil pan came in 2 days so that's nice. I also decided to go with the standard volume oil pump and ditch the high volume pump. Reasoning is, it is a street car and might see some track use but this motor has at least 100k miles and will not last forever. As far as drag racing, I have to drive 2 hours into another state for my closest drag strip and I doubt I'll be doing that often.
Side note, I fully support "Long Island Needs A Drag Strip" and would use it regularly but realistically I doubt it will happen. Too much "not in my back yard here"
Back to the oil pump, people have had the high volume pump run dry, twisted a pump shaft or worn out the distributor gear. Some have not had any problems but I think just a stock replacement will do.
I will save it for a built 351w motor because I'd really have to plunk $130+ for a deep sump pan or a 7 Qt pan to use it and not worry.
I would trade this car for a 30s body 3 window or 5 window coupe even just a shell or roller. I fully intend on building one frame up with a fiberglass body. Frame kits are like 700 and glass bodies are 6k. Drive train and running gear and they can be had finished for 12-16k. I'd rather build it then by a made one. Now, should I repair and ebay the old pan or just mothball it? Probably just going to save it.
