My Canton even on hard braking to make the first turn around with lots of oil in the top end of E heads never a blip with the 455 in the 78 TA or the IA in the Camaro.
On the IA I did extend the sump 1" deeperand the GTO road race pan is 1" deeper and I added addition sump in the front that an F body has room for and it is on the newer 455 I have slated for the 81 TA.
In college one of my Biology grad student lab teachers was a car guy(saw me racing my Impala in Dallas) and he was a hard core 64 GTO guy. Teh Texas A&M SCCA club got to go around Texas World Speedway Oval and road course and just at normal speed on the high banking in the long oval straight he was loosing oil pressure with a non baffled pan! He even had an original factory Bathtub intake he put on his 64 and drove it around for a month.
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1978 Trans Am original owner 10.99 @ 124 pump gas 455 E heads, NO Bird ever!
1981 Black SE Trans Am stockish 6X 400ci, turbo 301 on a stand
1965 GTO 4 barrel 3 speed project
2004 GTO Pulse Red stock motor computer tune 13.43@103.4
1964 Impala SS 409/470ci 600 HP stroker project
1979 Camaro IAII Edelbrock head 500" 695 HP 10.33@132 3595lbs
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