Hello everyone and thanks for reading. I was doing some research on the oiling systems fokes recommend and their was a comment on a dead form that surprised me and I'm hoping some one could confirm it stated that the eldebrock heads coming with the oil passages pre resticted. If so what other oiling mods would really be done? I have a high volume pump and plan on getting a 8 quart oil plan( any recommendations on what would work good on a 2wd truck would be great) would y'all recommend doing anything else? It's just going to be a 445 stroker going in a 73 3 on the tree truck. It will probably never see above 5000 rpm and I don't plan on ever doing hard launches...or launches period. Thanks for the help in advance

 

You should be good as-is. You don't need the HV pump, and it may just flood the heads. For what you are doing, the standard pump is best. Ditto 8 quart pan.

I looked at 3 heads and an installation PDF. Nothing about restricted oil passages.

https://www.edelbrock.com/shop/cylin...=3605&efn=3640

 

This guy covers alot at the 16 minute mark

 

The HV pump is a good upgrade, its volume that matters in these engines. The edelbrock heads are not restricted and I do suggest restricting them. Drill out the block oil pump to filter to 7/16" and chamfer holes. I use FT pans on my builds but milodon makes a good 8 quart pan. The oiling mods are nothing new and go back decades.

 

Wish I had this video a few years back. I did the same mods, just nice to see some video explanation. I'm running a FT pan on my '73 2WD, no problems with fitment. Holds about 10 quarts.

 

Great that was exactly what I needed thank you to everyone

 

Nice but he takes 10 minutes to do a 1 minute presentation. And he's got the angle from the pump to the passage to the filter wrong. It's 45* not 90. I didn't watch the rest but last motor I built, I did some work to the main oil openings to smooth the transition to the holes in the main bearings too

 

FE Oiling System and Modifications

Here also

 

Ditto on the lack of needing a HV pump. With stock clearances(rods/mains) and low rpm there is not a lot of need for a HV pump. ALL oil pumps have a bypass and with the added volume and no place for it to go, it is just going to be bypasses more oil back to the pan. Nothing gained.

 

no need for an HV pimp at all n a mostly stockl motor, and these days the HV pumps are worse made than the stock ones, by far, frome verything ive sen and read and researched, the HV ones are crappily chinese garbage made ones, stock oens way to go, unless the motor is a totalyl higfh $$$ and all-out strictly a racing motor for track only, etc and even then you would not want one of these garbage chinese made HV ones for that motor,. you want to run a stock style pump,. or at least avoid cheapo-chinese crapola HV ones,.
but.. if youre totally bent on having to run an HV one, for whatever reason, then at the very least go and spend the extra $$ on a good quality pump,

these motorsi especially the FE motorsi already seem to pump alot of extra(volume or capacity)of oil to the top end ,,,,
and with an HV pump it would probly be a worse mess and also be too much oil to the top end,.,. i would think..,.., i

| would never ever even consider an HV pump win an FE motor especially,,.
and definitely not one for my bone stock 390 i know, it wil be geting a good quality stock replacement pump,.
if/when i ever maybe am inside the bottom end, possibly, to replace any stock bearings,
or the RMS or the oil pump screen/pickup tube , or anything else, etc. maybe, hmmm.........