How much oil can a SBF 427 hold?

Cashburn · #1 (**permalink**) 06-02-2011, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by patrickt

How could oil come out of the heads if you've removed them?

BTW... that was a typo, it should have been valve covers off. Sorry, on the iPad.

patrickt · #2 (**permalink**) 06-02-2011, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Cashburn

BTW... that was a typo, it should have been valve covers off. Sorry, on the iPad.

That's why I thought it was a trick question, kind of like "Besides baseball, how many ball games can you score points in when your team doesn't have the ball?"

Cashburn · #3 (**permalink**) 06-02-2011, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by patrickt

That's why I thought it was a trick question, kind of like "Besides baseball, how many ball games can you score points in when your team doesn't have the ball?"

Yeah, first with no valve covers. Then take the heads off (not sure how much oil would sit in the heads anyway...

The real question I suppose is how much oil does a pan hold when filled to the gasket?

patrickt · #4 (**permalink**) 06-02-2011, 09:14 PM

If you take 427 cubic inches, you will need a little over seven quarts to fill that volume. If you roughly say the area below the piston is clearly greater than the area above the piston, then you'll easily have the room for the seven quarts without ever getting up to the heads at all even with half the pistons being down at any one time. Driven gently, you might not ever even know you've over-filled it that much... maybe.