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Last Sunday afternoon a buddy came over and helped me push Agnes into the shop. I had every intention of getting started on her right then and there. Once she was in the garage I was completely overwhelmed with emotions. It was sudden and totally unexpected. It was the first time since Pierre's passing that I felt that way. I didn't even breakdown when I found him. That was the end of my desire to work on her. I went in the house and I guess I don't really do anything for the rest of the day.

Monday morning the desire was back and I couldn't wait to get home from work Wednesday. Wednesday is the first night I didn't have other plans so I started the roof repairs.

Saterday I finished the metal fab part of the roof repairs, sanded the roof, and prepped the roof for filler. Then I got her on stands, dropped the exhaust and transmission, and I'm ready to pull the engine today. Except mother nature said "No work in the garage for you"! We had a hell of a ice storm last night and it's expected to keep going all day and tonight. We have no power and a walk to the dark garage was filled with the sound of trees breaking in the woods around my place. If the power comes back on I'll be out there.

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The power came back on but it was around 7:00 P.M. The good news is we have another ice storm coming Wednesday.
 
The engine is out. I have to run to my storage unit and grab a engine stand in the morning.

I'll start the tear down and cleaning once it's on the stand.

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The 340 is on the stand and disassembled other than the crank. I hope to have everything cleaned up and ready to assemble tomorrow.

Oh, and if you ever have a desire to absolutely hate an oil pan, get one of these bastards! I had forgotten how much it sucked to drop the engine in, line up the headers, and fish the center link through the pan and hook up the idler arm and pitman all before setting the engine all the way down. Pulling the engine actually sucks more than putting it together.

I'm pretty sure I'm going g to install a stock pan and throw this bastard as far into the woods behind my garage as I possibly can!

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Moving right along, that oil pan is massive, 6 gal to replace 6 qts!
I have the alum slots off the cuda, backs are wide, fronts are tiny wonder what shipping would be if they would help you.
They would need a real good cleanup, been outside for like 15 years.
 
Are they 15"? I'm absolutely intrested. Although they will likley go on the challenger or the other valiant. This one is small bolt. I'm converting the '68 valiant to big bolt with the parts he already had.
I'll PM you. Thank you Rusty.
 
A buddy years ago had one of those oil pans in his 10 second Duster.
He said the same thing about it!
He also said he figured it helped the bottom end tremendously during his hard launches and high revs...
 
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