[Bob Childress]

I have to say that Armando is a stand up guy and he did exactly what he promised in his advertisements to get the oil pan to fit. I sent him pictures and measurements and a few weeks later a revised oil pan arrived with the concave starter indent left out. Except for the indent being removed, this is a standard full-size full-length GT40 oil pan and the end of the pan now looks just like the Canton. The oil pan also included the correct height oil pick up tube with screen (in picture #1) and the oil dip stick tube with fittings.

Theoretically with the starter indent gone, I could now do a trial fitting and actually mount the pan to the engine block. Theoretically that is…...because now that the starter indent was gone I discovered that the girdle around the bulge of the oil pump was also lacking sufficient clearance. This picture shows the girdle as it goes around the oil pump which used to clear the straight sides of the Canton Oil pan.