Oil pan baffle 454….UTILITY?
10-24-2009, 02:03 AM
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Oil pan baffle 454….UTILITY?
Hello,
My oil pan is not equipped with this part and I wonder whether that is necessary.
http://www.parts123.com/parts123/yb....Z5Z5Z50000050G
For what is used this part and how it is assembled in the oil pan ?
THANK'S
Charly
My oil pan is not equipped with this part and I wonder whether that is necessary.
http://www.parts123.com/parts123/yb....Z5Z5Z50000050G
For what is used this part and how it is assembled in the oil pan ?
THANK'S
Charly
10-24-2009, 08:41 AM
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Only if you are going to execute any quick turning, rapid acceleration or hard braking stops. The baffle(s) keep the oil from sloshing away from the oil pump pickup screen/tube, so that there is no point of lube starvation.
10-25-2009, 05:09 AM
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THANK'S for this explanation, it's clear.
I also wish to know if this part supplements the system welded in the oil pan or if it replaces it. Also and in both cases I don't see how the baffle is fixed inside the oil pan. Did I see that bolts are sold for that but where they are fixed ?
Thank's for your assistance.
I also wish to know if this part supplements the system welded in the oil pan or if it replaces it. Also and in both cases I don't see how the baffle is fixed inside the oil pan. Did I see that bolts are sold for that but where they are fixed ?
Thank's for your assistance.
10-25-2009, 09:52 AM
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That is a windage tray, it was designed to keep oil off the crank, less drag on the crank. There are 4 studs that you need to buy, that replace 4 rear main bolts that hold the crank in the block.
10-25-2009, 11:23 AM
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Scroll down to the 20403 pan, i had that one on my 468. Very nice oil pan, everything you need built in to it.
http://www.moroso.com/catalog/catego...?catcode=11902
http://www.moroso.com/catalog/catego...?catcode=11902
10-25-2009, 11:38 AM
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That is indeed the windage tray. IN a Corvette pan there also is typically a trap door in the bottom of the pan and a separate compartment where the oil pickup resides and the trap door keeps oil in the compartment during turns and driving on hills. As others have said the windage tray keeps oil off the crank freeing up some HP. If you are going to want all available HP then put one in otherwise it is not a must have.
10-25-2009, 01:18 PM
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I finally understood ...... the baffle is fixed on the engine at the top of the oil pump and not in the oil pan as I thought it. I looked on my Vette and it's equipped with this baffle.
Thank you for your answers and especially for your patient (but not always easy when it's your first Vette, that your job is very far away from mechanics and that English is not your language!).
Have a great day
Thank' s
Charly
Thank you for your answers and especially for your patient (but not always easy when it's your first Vette, that your job is very far away from mechanics and that English is not your language!).
Have a great day
Thank' s
Charly
