S-car oil pan baffles

[Brett Dikeman]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:17 PM, DeWitt Harrison <six-rs at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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.

It's left turns, not right turns.  The turn before the bridge and
under the bridge at Tremblant, for example- two lefts.

Cured the problem for me, completely.  I went from the gauge dropping
like a rock right after the bridge and the low-pressure alarm coming
on, to not even a wiggle.  Maybe there was something more than just
the windage tray installed?  I'd have to go back into my email from
back then and see what Glen did.

Brett