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Garth is correct- an unbaffled pan WILL waste your main/rod bearings even on a mostly-stock street Pantera! A STOCK Pantera will corner so hard that the oil will slosh away from the pump pickup and it will such air. 2 or 3 instances will wreck the bearings. One Nor-Cal owner didn't finish an 8-lap open track event in his show car....For those confused, there are three different Ford pans that may be in your car. One is an open bucket- no baffles at all. #2 has a horizontal baffle down in the sump, around the pump pickup. #3 is the so-called 'Boss' pan and has the lower sump baffle plus a bent scraper attached to the sloping part. Interestingly, this pan was on our '72L with a smogged 351-CJ, and is date-stamped on the sump bottom, right where most Panteras drag their pans so it may be obscured on some. No stock pan is as good as a good 'racing' pan, but what you often see for sale is a 'Tee" sump pan for Mustangs. This will not fit a Pantera. Finally, an Aviaid or an Armando (Armando used to work for Aviaid so they are equivalent) pan has been found to work great on street Panteras, road racing, drag racing Panteras and everything in between; experiments with other, cheaper pans might be interesting, but how much is your motor worth? $500 now or $3000 later, as they say.