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Oil pan
Here's something to consider on the oil pan, If you were planning on taking it off you could have the stockpan's threads repaired, ( heilicoil maybe? ) or have a bung welded on over the hole and install a pipe plug with the pan still installed on the car. You should be able to remove the pan with the motor still in the car but you'll have to pull out the bolts through the crossmember out, jack it up slightly and but some wooden wedges in between the mounts
and frame. That way the new oil pan goes back and you've got more money to put into the 460.
Studs are cool and make gasket alignment worry free, but I can tell you from experience that you won't be able to remove the pan with the motor in the car.
I'm guessing you bought a stock replacement pan, but if you bought a deep sump pan you might have contact issues with the crossmember. Atleast on the Milodon deep sump pan anyway. I think you're dead on not rushing the 460, makes perfect sense to me. Hope I was helpful and not being a windbag, let us know how it goes man!
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