Oil Pan Qs- advice on purchase

[Swede958]

Alright- I am having my annual road trip up to Brownwood Tx in a couple weeks for a camp I teach at and I'm trying to get my car good and ready. One thing that bothers me about my car though is the oil pressure- I have a HV pump and stock pan and at idle it wants to try to suck the pan dry- dropping the pressure.

I'd like to get a high cap pan, so I'm looking at options. So far the front runner is either the Canton 7qt or 9qt pan. What do y'all think? I've considered the milodon offerings but they seem more mass production than the canton- I have small doubts about little stuff like that. I've heard really good things about canton in terms of quality, just not sure which to go with.

Right now I have a fairly stock 80' 302 with nothing more I've put inside than a double roller chain and the hv pump. BUT- my next motor is going to be a 331 stroker which I hope will be pushing around 425-450 at the rear wheels. I know this would need a reliable oil system to survive well. So would it either be the 7qt (like 206$ at Streetortrack) or like 9qt road race (270$ or so)?

What are y'all oppinions and are there any deals to be found out there? Thanks!
The Swede

 

[usedtobe 67p51d]

I don't think that you can have too much oil capacity. I have the canton 9 quart as well as a large cooler. with the canton pan you need to use the old style multi piece gaskets or the pan will leak. I've owned a "T" cobra cast pan and it leaked around the mains as well. there's several other pans out there the more $$$ you spend will get you trap doors, bungs,{ to return supercharger oil or for tempature sensors} and windage devises. You need to know what your goal is for the car. If your ever going to open track it it's worth doing the trap doors, as for windage, a tray is supposed to free up 5-10 h.p. as well as getting oil back sooner. My only question is why do you have a high volume pump? on most motor the builders keep the motor tolerances tight to avoid using a hv pump

 

[gp001]

I have the 7 qt Canton T pan with the baffles. They are great quality and I like them better than Morosso and other aftermarket pans.

I use a 1 piece felpro gasket on mine and don't have any leaks.

 

[302 coupe]

swap the pump for a stocker. don't need HV unless you have loose tolerances. Oil pump is only $40, alot cheaper than a $250 pan, IMO its a better fix too.

 

[66P51GT]

swap the pump for a stocker. don't need HV unless you have loose tolerances. Oil pump is only $40, alot cheaper than a $250 pan, IMO its a better fix too.

You'll free up some HP too. It takes more power to run HV and HP oil pumps.

 

[Swede958]

I'm running an HV pump because the old pump (stock type) seemed to be giving out and most of the people I talked too reccommended going with an HV pump. I'm not too worried about the HP because as far as I know it doesn't take that much more.

I think I might end up getting the Canton 7qt kit from Street or Track and a stock pump from work and seeing where it leads me.

THanks for the help guys.
THe Swede