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Danny Bellmore

Danny Bellmore

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I'm trying to find information on how to properly set up a swinging pickup for a small block Super Stock 340 oil pan. I haven’t had much luck locating details so far. I'd also like to see some clear pictures or diagrams of a solid-mounted pickup setup for the same application, as I may end up fabricating one myself. Any guidance or reference material would be appreciated.
 
There are pictures and directions in the Direct connection engine book from the 80’s. You can find them on eBay sometimes. I’ll see if I can find mine for a photo.
 
Danny Bellmore said:
I'm trying to find information on how to properly set up a swinging pickup for a small block Super Stock 340 oil pan. I haven’t had much luck locating details so far. I'd also like to see some clear pictures or diagrams of a solid-mounted pickup setup for the same application, as I may end up fabricating one myself. Any guidance or reference material would be appreciated.
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From the Direct Connection "Racing Oil Systems" #17, April 1976, Rev. 1980. Super Stock section:

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That was what I was talking about. I had to jet due to a customer and came back to this. Great work!
 
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This is the Milodon cover and pickup. You can see the tube is big. It’s 1.0625 OD.

You can also see the pipe plug on the pump. If you pull that plug and plumb a line over to the pickup you now have a dual pickup.

In the above picture I’d put the second pickup fitting at the top of the pickup. I’d keep the two pickups as far apart as I could to keep one from robbing the other.

I forgot to take measurements but I will later on the size of the pickup. IIRC when I did the math on it years ago (1993) I think the surface area of that pickup is 100% greater than the OE screen.
 

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This is the swinging pickup pan on the left and the static pickup on the right. The swinging pan has a square pass through tube and the static pan has a round pass through tube. I prefer the round one but that’s not the biggest issue.

It doesn’t look like much, but the rear baffle on the static pan is absolutely positively critical to engine life. Without that baffle and a static pick up you will never keep enough oil around the pickup and it will suck air and you will be shitting rods faster than you can put them back in. I learned this on a very expensive Stefs pan that a semi trained circus monkey could have built better.

I can NOT over emphasize how important that dumb little baffle is. Unless you weld in mounts you can’t use a swinging pickup in a static pan. You’d need to fabricate and weld up the mount for the pickup. I’ve never tried up but I’m guessing it’s possible to use a static pickup in a swinging pickup pan IF you take out the mounts and baffles for the swinging pickup and then put the static pickup in.

A ton of work for little gain as I see it. My opinion is if you have a pan for a certain pickup, use that pickup. I killed thousands of dollars of parts on that junk **** Stefs pan and it was not only poorly designed the baffling was baffling. It made no sense. By the time I got the pan to keep enough oil around the pickup to keep from kicking the rods out at 1000 feet it only made more power than the Super Stock pan at 8k and up rpm. And it would do it knock the rods out regularly and of course when I called Stefs they shucked and jived around it.

Yes, Im stilled pissed at that and that was 25 years ago.


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Here is two shots of the static pickup. It measures 3.5 x 1.5 x 1.5. You can see the inlet on the right in one picture. I’d put the second pickup as far to the left, away from the big pickup as I can so the two dont try to pull oil from each other.

If you need more measurements or pictures let me know.
 
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This is the Milodon cover and pickup. You can see the tube is big. It’s 1.0625 OD.

You can also see the pipe plug on the pump. If you pull that plug and plumb a line over to the pickup you now have a dual pickup.

In the above picture I’d put the second pickup fitting at the top of the pickup. I’d keep the two pickups as far apart as I could to keep one from robbing the other.

I forgot to take measurements but I will later on the size of the pickup. IIRC when I did the math on it years ago (1993) I think the surface area of that pickup is 100% greater than the OE screen.
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Bob Tarozzi... According to his research at K.B. The 1" (AN16) pick up produced 22 gpm. from 7000up. Rated with SAE 50 at 210F and 60psig.

That's a rare bird!
 
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