Reply to "10Qt pan oil volume"

I read that pan as overfull. I don't think you need to look inside at all. I'm not familiar with the Fontana block.
Perhaps it has a different skirt length than a Ford block does?

I'm sure there is someone here that knows them and can comment on that.

Just get a clean oil catch pan, drain it all out and put it back in a quart at a time until you get to the safe zone.

I think you are a quart over BUT one of the things we would tell people who were doing their first high speed event on a race track was to put an extra quart in the pan.

It couldn't hurt but it could save your engine.

You want to worry about oil in the pan? I had severe paranoia the first time I was on a banked track. What do you do to keep the oil near the sump when you are at about 30 degrees from flat? Maybe more?

I forget. The blood in my head was going sideways.

Then Bob Bonduraunt passed me running WAY THE F up on the banks against the rail flat out in a 289 Cobra and I felt like a wussy!

I will say in my own defense though that I am one of the few that I know of that HAS, as in previously, ancient history, spun in their own oil. Talk about a freaky disorienting occurrence?

Trust me on this...you will never forget that!

Good thing they make adult Depends is all I can say. I won't drive anywhere without 'em! Don't want to stain the leather on the seats!