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Originally Posted by Karl Bebout
In my many years as a pump jockey/mek-a-nick, I always put 5 quarts of oil in a stock SBF, with the filter change. Ran across very few cars that required more, with stock oil pans and systems. I'm thinking that you're thinking wrong. The minimal amount of additional oil needed for the lines going to an external oil filter would probably be less than 4 oz. unless they are REAL long. |
Ditto that, and from what the OP also assumed or read or heard -
... a SB 351 with a standard oil pan holds 6 quarts of oil with a filter change, 5 without ...
Nope, a standard oil filter does not take 1 QT of oil, more like 1/3rd QT.