Yesterday while cleaning things up in the garage I took about two minutes to slip the motor back into the engine bay. The motor slips PLENTY far down into the bay, but it seems that the oil pan is still hitting the axle housing some... not letting it totally go into place. I have posted my quetion and concerns over in the LS1Tech conversion forum and hoping for a speedy answer.

What I am hoping for is either another version of stock LS1 pan that has a slightly smaller sump area...

a little less like this........ [__/----
and a little more like ..... [_/-----

I know the sump in the stock VX motor is pretty small front to back, but is wider out to one side. I have am wondering if I can either find a pan with smaller sump or if I may need to have the stock pan modified. If I have it modified to get my clearance from the axle housing, I may need to have it widened to compensate for the lost volume. Not sure.

Anyway, thought I'd post it and see if anyone here has any good ideas. I have done some searching for LS1 oil pan options... no luck thus far. If you got suggestions, PLEASE lemme know. I'm probably a couple weeks from being able to get under the VX or do any serious wrenching... so I need to get prepared. Thanks!