I hate cutting up good (expensive) parts, but you've got to do what you've got to do to make things work.

Here I'm using a plasma cutter with a circle cutting tool to cut out a 5.5" circle under the oil pickup. Next I'll fabricate a new bottom approximately 2" lower than the original one. Think of it like putting a steel dog dish over the hole and welding it up! This will give me almost a quart of extra oil around the pickup.

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