First thing I would do is open up the bottom of that engine, with a plan to
at minimum replace the pan and pickup.
If the balance shafts are out of the motor I would try to get a pan and
pickup from a commonblock 2.2l. (these can generally be found in later modem
92/93
base P bodies) and actually I'd also want to double check that the balance
shaft feed hole was properly plugged.
Even if the balance shafts were removed, 5 quarts of oil in a 2.5 pan w/o
balance shafts should still be WAY more than sufficient to submerge the
pickup.
If I wanted to do it right, I might also replace the O ring at the top of
the pickup tube and pull the oil pump to re-do the anaerobic sealer where
the pump meets the block to make sure there are no leaks there. If you want
to get some performance benefit out of all this work, you could pull the
balance shafts while you're in there, portmatch the oil feed hole in the
block (round) to match the oval output hole on the pump, and open up the
bottom of the pickup tube.
Dave Robinson
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