DaveP said:The deep pan is easy.
When you find a PN for a filter that has a longer neck that fits in our pump let me known please...
Loeryder said:Derale is deeper but hte filter sits on top of the cooling tubes so it uses the stock filter.
TCI used to use a filter extension that I thought was kind of hoaky but the TCI cast alum pan is the shiznit.
Who has suggested letting the stock filter hang free? Like they already stated, the Derale pan has cooling tubes that provide support, and the TCI pan has supports cast into it. So both deep pans provide support for the filter.DaveP said:Letting the stock filter hang free in the deep pan makes no sense. Plus it is supposed to sit on the pan to keep it in the pump. I would be concerned that it could fall out, if just left hanging there in the sloshing fluid.
Count me as one of those guys with no issues for 5 years now, 700R4 with Derale pan. Mine has been raced hard as hell. Never had a problem with the filter.I'm sure a bunch of "experts" will come back with "been this way in my truck for years. No issues". Where's the gain, if the pick-up isn't lowered into the deeper sump?? Where's the gain when a boost-launch jerks the filter out of the pump, the trans looses pressure, and the engine over-revs instantaneously and bends a bunch of valve train parts??
DaveP said:On the plus side, he pointed out that my two DD's both have 1993 4L60E in them. The GM deep pan will fit, and the filter that goes with that pan will ALSO fit.