While the drama is little high on this thread, it brings up an interesting topic of the dry and wet oil capacities. I really didn't think about it until now but there are a lot of hiding places for that oil. Besides the wet surfaces, the lifters, oil galleys (which can vary from tiny to open chambers), oil coolers, oil pumps and pick-up tubes. The tubes on an LS engine are good size and long! Could be the better part of a quart there.