Charlies oil pan capacity

[ruffcut]

So, without the kickout your pan is probably an 8 qt pan

 

[6872n73]

If a guy put a dipstick tube and dipstick in the block and measured from the oil pan rails to the low and high Mark, you could then measure down into your pan and have a good starting point.

 

[not so famous bob]

In a every day street/strip type car a pan without a dipstick would not be preferred. For an all out race engine it will be fine as long as you don't have any leaks. I don't have one in my Hemi street/strip car. However, I am also running a vacuum pump.

back in the day , Chrysler always recommended a deeper pan , because the hemi, stock , would pump a qt of oil at drag racing revs / Tom Hoover told us that !!

 

[33 IMP]

I'd use water, and run it to about an inch below the screen
Then run that amount of oil. But then, I would certainly take Doug's recommendation (DVW).

 

[33 IMP]

back in the day , Chrysler always recommended a deeper pan , because the hemi, stock , would pump a qt of oil at drag racing revs / Tom Hoover told us that !!

.... and a deeper pan also get the oil farther away from the crank, reducing windage losses. Ideal is more oil, farther away from crank, without losing ground clearance. Kinda hard to do with a wet sump.