Moving oil filter back to the bottom of oil pump

I ordered these 2 parts from American Parts Depot. The housing has the oil bypass deleted and I already had a new relief valve and gasket in the shed, but you would need to order these as well if you were doing the job. Though you could probably just use your old main relief valve if you wanted to.

I also went though a repco oil filter spec sheet and found the smallest dimension oil filter with a 13/16 thread. ROF87 is what I cam up with.

I fitted the new main relief valve and new fitting to the new oil cover and then bolted it to the bottom of the oil pump. Was a little tricky as the pump gears both want to keep falling out! Then screwed the  ROF87 oil filter on. And it fit!!!!

There is not a heap of clearance between the oil filter and the sway bar as you can see in the photos. The next step is to run the engine and stall it up in gear to see how close the filter gets to the sway bar when it rocks on its mounts. If it looks to close though I think I could put spacers under where the sway bar bolts to the chassis for some extra clearance. The engine wont be running for a few weeks or maybe a month though, so you will have to weight a bit for an update.

The power steering hoses are a bit tight through there as well, but they weren't exactly great before anyway. They could always be re routed at a later date if needed, but will do for now.

I also fitted this edelbrock Performer manifold today as well. I used the ARP bolts with the small heads.

I thought this must have been done before. Probably multiple times. I thought I'd put some pics up in case other people want to do it. I think the filter I used is probably a Holden one as well. They seem to use the 13/16th thread.