huffin53: The long non stepped pan is NOT that huge. The stepped one hold 12 quarts. With a little work you can mount a shield/tray/baffle to the the divider plates and a brace near the front. You need to calculate how far above it to make the plate. As I remember it's about 1/2" and mine just misses the crank and rods as it spins You can louver, slot or screen it to catch the oil as the crank spins just like any other trick baffeled pan. Make the baffle about 1/8" from the front edge of the pan. Cut an opening to get the oil pump thru as you are putting it on. You can also add a solid plate at the rear of the pan parallel to the bottom sticking out 2-1/2 to 3" out from the back. This will keep the oil from shoshing up to the #6 rod during acceleration. Find the level for this by setting the pan flat and putting 7 qts of water in the pan to find the level of the oil. I make this plate pretty tight to the pan sides and back.
If your going to make the oil pickup solid I put mine 3/16" off the bottom. I use an external oil pump and figured out what pick-up to use by looking at the Moroso catalog for oil pans.
A lot of HP can be made or saved from being lost with an oil pan even at 5000 RPM. I've refind mine over the years and always saw gains.
The pan I use today was designed and made by Stan Shamura, better known as Oil Pan Stan, who designed and made countless pans for Ed Pink and Keith Black
Good Luck
