S-car oil pan baffles

[DeWitt Harrison]

As a side note to the remarks others have made about the
windage tray and elongating some holes to account for the extra
pan gasket thickness, the ur-S4 oil pan does not clear the
front subframe of type 44 cars. Install the windage tray in
your original 3B oil pan.

This mod's primary benefit is to reduce engine drag by capturing
more of the oil slung off the crank to the sump and reducing the
the density of the oil mist cloud the crank must spin in. In the
process, the dynamic oil level in the sump is improved somewhat.
But a windage tray doesn't really solve the problem of oil starvation
in hard right hand turns where the oil in the sump climbs the left wall
of the pan and engine block. Custom baffles must be fabricated to
address that issue.

DeWitt Harrison

On Wednesday, January 20, 2010 1:23 PM, "200q20v"
<a200q20v at gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: S-car oil pan baffles


> In his last email Brett mentioned that his car has S-car oil pan baffles
> installed. I've been facing oil pressure drops on hard turns for quite
> some time and really need this done before next HPDS season. I can get
> an AAN oil pan but I haven't been able to find anyone who actually did
> it. Since Brett have been unresponsive to several private emails I am
> wondering if anybody on the list have done it or knows how to do it and
> what is involved. Thanks in advance.
> 
> Eugene.
> 
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