Horsepower 410 stroker build
I don't believe I would run a baffled pan AND a windage tray.
Then your (drag race style) oil pan is very deep end to end. Keep reading on brother!
I just run a baffled pan and studs. Not sure how a windage tray would add to that...any oil getting to my crank is coming from above and I would think a tray would exacerbate the problem by trapping pooled oil closer to the crank allowing it to be whipped up again.
Maybe I am visualizing this wrong ?
The oil is (or should be) thin enough to exit windage tray easy enough. The windage tray openings should be opened wide for a quick mass exit. The oil should not have the ability to pile up on itself and cause an interference issue. If it did/does, you have the wrong weight oil. Once the oil hits the tray, the trailing oil tends to follow. The oil that doesn’t follow has a chance of being wrapped up around the crank. This is why a tray is mounted close to the rotation mass.
The oil, as it comes off the crank is being thrown off with force. Any oil in front of it gets shoved out. It should not collect or pool in the pan whatsoever.
As the oil exits the baffle, it is centered or to the side of the opening slightly. This should appear as a heavy draining. This is what prevents the oil being slammed into the pan & splashing the oil back up.
The deep pan is the second half of the system. The best pan is a drag pan, a basic box end to end that is very deep. These can be run without a windage tray. A pan shy of a full all out drag pan can probably very well make excellent with a windage tray working with it. It depends on how deep and lengthy the pan is.
To finish off the best possible set up is to run a crank scrapper. Use it with a windage tray and a deep pan if possible.
A baffled oil pan is great but not exactly always coupled with the best design or depth. While the baffles should be keeping the oil pick up covered, the pan design may do nothing for windage by itself.
I run a baffled pan, crank scraper and a windage tray.
Pan baffles have nothing to do with windage trays.
THIS!! ^^^^^^^^^^^
And who’s that, irissie ushou-Ooo-Booo scrapper guy again?
