You guy's are terrific! Thank You especially thatdarncat for doing the web searching/links
               Bothers me the reproduction mounts could sit differently and suddenly I have header clearance issues or clutch linkage issues etc..
 I know, Murphy's Law, mine will show up the day after I get another set...

My Marine 427SO's are the real deal (nothing,nada,zilch center oiler at all)
 I've only heard of one other pair of true side-oiler Chris Craft 427's like mine in somebody's hands.  Oddly I guess, I have never seen a sideoiler block drilled  as a center oiler.

               I'll just keep looking for mine and keep in mind where I can get replacement.

In the event I can't find where in the heck I stashed my original plates, what other vehicles have the same 390GT/428CJ motor plates beside Mustangs and Cougar's? ...........

    I don't know if they are rare or not.


Of course I have a side-oiler and need to massage/trim one side FWIW

I've actually got a collection of 11" and 11-1/2" NOS, Rebuilt and lightly used pressure plates, matching big-spline discs and steel flywheel I will run that accepts both 11" and 11-1/2". It's surprising how much variation there are in the heights of the fingers between the different plates. Some have the counter weights on the outside of the fingers/arms (what exactly and how well do those work?) .... It seems like you could hold the clutch pedal down and feel variation in pressure by revving up the motor?..... .
   My clutch linkage has the production FE Mustang clutch linkage components that have pretty much all been reinforced to prevent flexing. The adjuster rod between the Z-arm and throw-out fork has a significant spread on adjustment but it seems to me like it always was adjusted toward the long end of the adjuster.

  Any tips or considerations on what to run with?

Re: ".............. but the multi-billion dollar company I work for chooses to use Baldwin filters exclusively on our engines."
---------------------------------10 Points Drew!----------------------
  Exactly that's the kind of filters (for large engines etc) that Baldwin Manufactured in Nebraska. 
Two things:
 I'll never forget some poor woman that was doing a single operation on each filter, her body was bent over doing so. I'm thinking about her aching back. (production Mgt) .The small "press" could have been  simply elevated and she would been able to stand straight up. Almost all the filter manufacturing plants I ever visited were ripe with mundane, boring, mindless and repetitive operations.
     The other thing I recall at Baldwin was the "cotton waste" used to fill the large "sock" filters as Drew mentioned used on the large diesels. I was fucking horrified there were nut shell pieces, saw dust, grain husks and every kind of scrap cotton material known to man in large mounds on the floor to stuff the sock type filters.

     Kind of strange but the parent company that owned Baldwin owned a HEPA filter company in Penn.  Within months I flew in their jet to tour both plants -- night and day in a way and the same thing in others.  Here I was having been trained on and witnessed state of the art micro-filtration filters actually being manufactured in clean-rooms.   Then seeing the floor sweepings that go into sock filters....... Hey you stuff a pillow real hard into a tube and let oil drip through it -- it's potentially going to come out very clean....It's not going to flow fast!

               So for you guys that want the micron of auto-oil filters ---- I'm sorry that  automotive-oil filters all use a multi-pass test, meaning you flow the lube through over and over before you sample and "determine" the ratings. On top of that they use crazy beta numbers that further allow them to pull a figure out of their asses. No wonder you don't need absolute filters in a car engine. They work fine with about a 25-50 micron absolute filter.

     Seriously=========      I meant it when I mentioned cutting back on or adding more media exponentially alters a filters performance ---the OPs wanting to use the short version gives me cramps.  -My 427 FEs going to be running dual parallel FoMoCo FL1 sized filters on a remote head.
   To give you a hint of the nature of adding more or less media -- JNHO I'd say it's reasonable that an automotive filters filter's efficiency will nearly drop the filters performance/micron rating by a third to a  half.
  NOTICE: I did not bother offering up my preferred brand(s) and models of those brand(s). Because I find it useless to even try to argue with "filter experts" that don't have a clue about elementary filtration.

     
           

  Re: Do you have a motive behind the questioning?


 Nuck.......... Nuck........Nuck.... Why Certainly..............


My 427's finally getting close to together (custom pushrods this week) and to be dropped into my 4spd "Bullitt"  S-code
    I'd like to know what it takes to float the Hyd Rollers

I noticed at the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance a Dan Gurney driven FORD GT listed Ed Pink as the engine builder. I screwed up by not going to the discussion at Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance:   "The Power Brokers seminar"    that featured as one of the speakers Ed Pink.   I recall Barry R saying something like "Ed's forgotten as much as I know in total about building FEs". So anyway perhaps a copy of The Great FE Intake Comparo, video of your shop  and Drag Week's SOHC may be a great door openers to get yourself a discussion with the master...

http://edpink.com/about-us


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRmvTnUSMhk

You guys are great entertainers when it comes to filters at least to retired filter peddlers like me. I've been flown to (via corp jet) and gone all through Baldwin's lube, fuel and hydraulic "filter plant". Left no doubt and they confirmed Baldwin makes the large, heavy duty and industrial filters they simply sub-out all the filters common to the automotive market (ultra competitive).
         This thread starts right off searching for recommendations on a shorter spin-on filter.  You can't have your cake and eat it to.  Odds are great there will be less filter media in a shorter filter.  Unfortunately increaseing the amount of media EXPONENTIALLY and directly improves the performance of the filter in every measurable way that filters are rated.  Contamination capacity , restriction, flow:differential pressure, and surprisingly even the sizes of particles captured etc..  Conversely decreasing media does the opposite of increasing it in all aspects.
      For the life of me I find it hard to comprehend why "laymen"  get into such elaborate discussions on both oil and to a lesser extent air filters while they don't even put forth a tenth of that effort discussing  gaskets, oils, carbs, headers, mufflers, tires, gears, pistons, cams etc.. I've sold over $25 million worth of filtration and get educated on filters all the time by laymen. I'm especially amused by the never ending hoards of snake-oil filter advertisers.... you know the ones that say: filters down to, filters as small as, increases HP & Fuel Mileage etc.
                        I was requested to do a speech for a group of ASHRAE engineers on antimicrobial treated filter medias. One engineer came up after I'd talked and said he liked my using the: "It filters down to a half-micron and so does a chain link fence if you find a half micron particle somewhere on it.'