captdistraction
GrumpyRacer
Well. a decent dry sump is way north of what you are going to have in that oil system, the other thing is, with the lining up of the oil passages, back in the day, we had to go through some serious cutting, deburring and die grinder work on the old FE 427 engines that we used to build, that pic brought me right back to them, seems like some things never change. One thing you might add is an Accusump, they saved an engine for us at Daytona when we cut an oil line on debris in the bus stop..
I used to say, "there are engine builders, and engine assemblers" one guy does the machining, and another puts it together, this way there are two sets of eyes on everything that is being done.
Some very good points. I have an accusump with an EPC-Pro valve (which is currently off to canton for rebuild service) which makes priming easy and provides that short safety net. I am also big on the two sets of eyes on everything. When assembling the shortblock there were two sets of eyes and when we did the long block and final assembly there were two sets of eyes and critical fasteners were torqued then rechecked by a second pair of hands). We even went as far as to designate different paint pen colors for the two people for witness marks. Its a great point to not go through all this work to miss out on something real silly like not torquing a fastener properly