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Hello,
A friend just purchased Bob Anderson's ESP camaro. It's a 1994 Z28. Bob had a shop rebuild the motor and had a high volume oil pump installed. Now there is a momentary drop in oil pressure when you are on the breaks very hard (racing hard). The Lt1 still has the factory oil pan. The oil pressure problem needs to be fixed before it goes back racing.


My current thought is that since we need to drop the K member to get at the pump or the pan, we might as well just put in a racing pan and reset the height of the oil pump. It looks like the Moroso pan and pick up tube are the way to go. Here is the pan: http://spideraccessories.stores.yahoo.net/moroso20185.html

What do you guys think?

Are their any tricks to dropping the K member? It looks fairly straight forward.

Thanks,
Chris Shay

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Are their any tricks to dropping the K member? It looks fairly straight forward.

Thanks,
Chris Shay

As far as a trick with the k-member, if you are not planning on droping it too far, just enough to get a pan off, keep all of your suspension bolted on including the sway bar, (this will limit how far your k-member can drop). Plus unbolt the front k-member to frame bolts first and replace them with the engine mount long bolts. Those bolts are ussually long enough that if you turn them in a few treads you will have enough clearance to take the pan off, but will still have the k-member located correctly for an easy reinstall.