Mark VIII Oil pan fittment

I don't think the MarkVIII oil pan will fit your chassis because of the kick-out on the passenger side.
It might possibly with a tubular K-member, but I doubt it.

I would think that a Cobra pan would fit, since it came in your chassis.

I had to use a MarkVIII oil pan because my car is full-frame, and any other pan interferes with my front frame crossmember.

If you have a MarkVIII oil pan in good shape, definitely hold onto it to sell, they are getting hard to find.

I have heard of differently sized crank counterweights hitting the scrapers on the stock Cobra pan, but I don't think the MarkVIIIs had that problem.

Why wouldn't the 2V pan work?

2V holds 5-quarts of oil VS 6-quarts for the Cobra pan.
The 4V motors really need that extra quart, what with twice the valvetrain.

The "kickout" on the MarkVIII pan is for that extra quart of oil capacity.

Plus, your '97 motor has the high-volume oil pump, I'd be afraid of starving the motor for oil with a higher flowing pump, and a recuced-capacity 5 QT oil pan.

Just my .02

Mercenvy, I agree with you about the keeping the pan, but will the Mark VIII oil pan fit with the stock crossmember in a 2001 GT?

actually the 2v pan holds the same they just chnged the dipstick ther later 2v took 6 too our old 02 gt took 6

Has anyone kept the Mark VIII oil pan, when transplanting the engine into a 1996 - 2004 GT?

irwood67 said:

Mercenvy, I agree with you about the keeping the pan, but will the Mark VIII oil pan fit with the stock crossmember in a 2001 GT?

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I don't know because the car that I swapped my motor into was not a Mustang.

Because of the kickout on the side of the oil pan, I'm guessing that the MarkVIII oil pan won't fit.

The only way to know for sure is to just drop it in and see if it fits????

I thought the 2v and 4v pans were the same after seeing the Ford Racing pan was listed as 2v and 4v, and also comparing that pan to the pics in Hyland's book.

Here is a cool thread with pics showing pan capacity:
http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/new-edge-cobras-51/413036-oil-pan-capacity-test-pics.html

The MarkVIII has a very unique oil pan, it has a "kick-out" on the pass side to hold an extra quart of oil.
If the Mustang and the MarkVIII have the same stock K-member, then it should fit.
But I haven't done it myself.

I tried to use the mark 8 pan in my 91 fox. But it made contact with the k-member. So I used a 2v oilpan. It will work with a tubular k-member. I just didn't have one at that time.