How I modified my oil pick-up ; my engine was on a stand so nice and easy to work on, fit oil pickup as standard, raid you kids room for some plastcene (sp?) or blue tack, cover pick-up with cling film / plastic to stop plas/blu getting into it , make plas in to 15mm ish snake, then place round rim of pickup, fit sump, remove sump , measure plas to find original gap, I then cut pick-up pipe close to engine end, tacked a bit of tube in to lengthen, made a 10 mm aloy spacer for pick-up mount, refit and measure, make sure it is paralel with base of sump ( hence the tacks, took about 4 attempts :-) I then ground tacks back and brazed both ends of joint, grind baffle plates in sump to clear pipe , clean everything , easy peasy, only takes about 20 mins ,,,,,,,, well closer to 6 hours lol
have a good one
Tim