Fmans Dart 427 build #9818 - 14" Leather steering wheel

[Fman]

I was able to pick up my engine today along with my tk0600 and QT bellhousing. The engine has a few bolt on items remaining to be completed which I will take care of myself. Unfortunately after I got home and was looking over the engine I noticed the oil pan is 8" deep which I think is not going to work and hang down below the frame rail. I am a little bummed about this because I requested a 7.5" deep oil pan. Not a huge deal but a little bit of a buzz kill of the hype of the new engine.... Oh well, things happen and we will have to switch it out. If anyone has a link for a good 7.5" pan please send it my way, I found a Moroso 20534 that I think will get the job done.

I was also able to get my tko600 tailshaft cut off and started coming up with a game plan for mating up the TKO an QT BH. My engine builder already spec'd everything for me and installed my clutch, he said just bolt it together and should be good to go. The clutch fork is the only thing I have to do some more research on, I believe it needs to be at 90 degress with BH attached to the engine and TOB touching clutch? Maybe someone could confirm this is how I should do it? It seems pretty straight forward but definitely want to make sure I do this correctly.

Here is the Dart 427 with the Edelbrock Pro Flo 4




Here is the Canton oil pan at 8" deep, I ran a level on it and it definitely looks too low to me...... bumma! my engine builder wants me to install everything and see where everything lands. He said he would install another pan later on if needed.




Tko tailshaft cut down, I ended up using a sawzall to cut it




Looks like another trip to Ace, these bolts that were sent with my transmission mounts are not even close to being long enough. Not quite sure what they were thinking on this one? EDIT: these short two bolts are for the underside of the mount, the two longer bolts that attach to the transmission do not come with the mounts.