Oil pan baffles
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Yeah I'm going to have the engine out so I was thinking about doing it while it's able to be done.
But I'm not sure if it's worth it or not.
Just curious...you've spent a lot of time at the track; have you logged oil pressure data with a stock set up? Supposedly the stock design allows momentary oil starvation at launch...
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I datalog every pass. I've cut as low as 1.42 60' and never saw any oil pressure drop, stock pan w/ 7 quarts of oil. I expect the new motor to go 1.3x once I get some things figured out in the tune. That's why I did the baffle. I think some of the faster cars started having issues in the 1.3x range. The baffle helped a little, but most ended up going with an $800 moroso copo camaro pan.
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That's the intended purpose for the improved racing baffle. It has a sump with trap doors on 3 sides iirc (front and each side), so it can handle side to side g's and hard braking and keep oil at the pickup.
If you're still running a stock bottom end with LSA oil squirters, most of your oil will stay in the bottom of the motor anyway. The bigger problem comes with HV pumps that pump all the oil to the top of the heads and the drainback is less than the motor consumes.
If you're still running a stock bottom end with LSA oil squirters, most of your oil will stay in the bottom of the motor anyway. The bigger problem comes with HV pumps that pump all the oil to the top of the heads and the drainback is less than the motor consumes.
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Yes I have stock bottom end, full bolt ons.
So do I need to worry about this with stock bottom end?
I have the improved racing baffle installed with stock pan, I don't have any prior logs to compare, with that said, I have not logged any pressure drops due to not having the baffle. However, in my particular setup I do have slight drop in oil pressure at WOT high mph rpms due to lower flow than optimal oil pump that I plan to change out come next engine rebuild time. The baffle decision for me came down to added insurance.
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Do you mean upgraded oil pump? Isn't the problem that the lsa has to high of output ?
The LSA PN: 12612289 oil pump would be a good replacement to the stock PN: 12586665 oil pump my LSX376-B15 long block was delivered with. The higher pressure/flow LSA pump accommodates the LSA oil squirters that cool the thin cylinder sleeves. My LSX376-B15 engine has very thick cylinder sleeves, no squirters, and could benefit having the extra 30% flow and pressure common to the LSA pump based on my data logs.
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