Both Nismo and AMS Oil makes a smaller filter that will work just fine with this setup. I am not sure of the exact dimensions but visually it looks like it would fit. Maybe you should try that before continuing to modify the oil pan. Awesome project by the way! I would love to try this one day, after I learn to weld that is.
Latest pan issue... So after installing the filter tree I realized that the pan bulges right over the top of where the filter goes. Great... So I grabbed my pan, and purchased a filter, and put the two on and look at what happened! Ya, more pan modification to come...
This angle shows everything the best. Here you can see the filter is actually holding up the pan from sitting on the block. Also you might notice that I made some changes to the filter tree, by moving the sending unit. The brass plug is where the sending unit used to be, and it would be pointing out straight into a frame rail or inner fender, so I needed to move it. Lucky I found another spot on the filter tree, which was 3/8npt, so I threw a 3/8x1/8npt bushing in there and relocated the sending unit and put a 1/8"npt plug in the other hole. I also cleaned out some sort of pressure regulator that controls oil flow to the oil cooler. Lots of junk in there. It is behind the large hexagon nut on the left of the tree and was really in there, I thought I might break it taking it out...
Here shows the actual filter/pan interference... But luckily it doesn't look like I will have to take much off the pan to make this work.
So off to fabrication land! That and I am installing injectors today...
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Both Nismo and AMS Oil makes a smaller filter that will work just fine with this setup. I am not sure of the exact dimensions but visually it looks like it would fit. Maybe you should try that before continuing to modify the oil pan. Awesome project by the way! I would love to try this one day, after I learn to weld that is.