04' crown vic oil pan vrs my 96' GT's pickuhe

Guys, I'm smack in the middle of this NPI to PI engine swap and hoping to get this finished up this weekend. I bought a 60k 04' PI engine, intake to oil pan and at this point I am swapping over the old NPI front cover and oil pan and oil filter/cooler. The CV oil pan's sump looks smaller, not to mention it does not have the 96-98 low oil level sensor and it looks to be slightly different shape wise. I removed it tonight and after looking at the oil pump pickup the thought occurred to me that I will have to reuse the tube from my old NPI engine. I figured I would throw this thread out and see if there is anyone else out there that might have done a similar swap and could verify this. I have both motors on engine stands side by side and the mustang NPI engines pickup def looks different.

fast97gt said:

the pans are different, however ive used the cv pan before itll hit the crossmember. use the oil pick up as well the sump screen. other then that your in good shape.

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That was my plan. Originally I was going to use the vic pan and deal without a low oil level light but I realized that the pans are very much different in size and was worried about the x-member.