Post a link and keep us posted on how it fits. Your car looks just a low a mine so let me know about ground clearance also. I just ordered a 331 stroker and I dont have an oil pan and etc. yet. Im going to be using a DSS girdle and tray also.
One thing I notice here is that most people keep refereing to the "side kick-out" type pans. These pans were developed back in the 60's and mostly for Road Racing. For the street I can see no advantage to this type of pan vs a stock pan.................with the exception of a windage tray/screen and some minor baffels. Unless you are carving corners @ 100mph a standard pan/deep pan works fine. For drag racing pans are constructed a little different, in that they are built deep to miss windage trays/screens/crank scrapers/girdles/stroker rods&crank throws, but they don't need to be kicked-out either. Why not take a standard pan and modify it with kick-outs or even add a little depth and add a baffel like the old Boss 302 had. It could be made as shallow or deep as you want, and I thought that Milodon or Moroso made the kick-outs as a kit so you could modify your own pan without spending hurdreds of dollars. I saw Billet Specialties build a pan (aluminum) for a Bonneville car called "Flat Fire" and the pan was like a jewel............the baffels looked like large ball bearings trapped between the baffels.....when the car accelerated the ball bearings were thrown back in the baffel trapping the oil, and when the car slowed down the ball bearings were left to float in the middle of the baffels letting the oil through the whole pan,interesting concept. One thing about pans and HP increases.................I switched to a Canton oil pan (Canton does engine dyno tests on their pans looking for optimum HP/TQ) for my 4.6l Mustang Cobra and gained almost 18WRHP on the chassis dyno form the stock pan...................that equates to almost 25HP at the crank. Good pans are not cheap...............kind of like the ole saying, "You only get what you pay for"......................IMHO
If the pan is like the one Im currently running, it should be no lower than sway bar. Keep up by checking out my project page: http://mmb.maverick.to/showthread.php?t=54307
Grabber GT, okay I will do so. Olerodder, I'm not good at modding my factory oil pan. I'm going to be doing a little X crossing and cruising. With that, I think a better oil pan is needed. Because of the new suspension, i'm pretty low to the ground and deep sumps are not the best for me. But I understand what your saying and it's great. The other thing is I can't weld so all my welding is done by another person. He is great but not as cheap as I wish he would be but like you said, "You only get what you pay for". This is why I was just going to buy one.
So I decided to order a new oil pan after having tried everything with this old one to get it to stop leaking. Not only does it leak from the modified areas that have been welded but it also leaks out the back of the pan. At least I believe it does. When I jack the front of the car up pretty high like its going up a really steep hill, I get a significant amnt of oil leakage from that area. Here what I ended up with: Its from http://www.kevkoracing.com/.
That one looks good. I'm sure you will let us know how it fits. I does look like it will clear girdles, trays, and the side kickouts are not that much.
