Hello to all!

I've been on the sidelines for awhile, this really seems like a marvelous place-kudos to the management.

I very much need to start with a mild question:

I'd like some declarations on the oil capacity of a pan from a seventies Ford econoline with a 429/460 engine which has just been installed in a new project, a '46 ford coup. The engine has 6 quarts of oil in it, and we spun a mocked up distibutor drive until we had the pressure we were happy with, but still at this moment there is no oil on the dip stick, (which came along from the same van-by the way.)

We probed with a piece of wire and found that we were about 2.25 inches away from the oil in the pan.

Was this a seven quart pan?

I don't want to add too much more and have the rods and crank counterweights smacking around all this oil just because the dipstick finally registered.

Any suggestions/answers would be appreciated greatly.

Hunts