Dude, WE have three days, but who is counting? Dick has plenty of experience swapping out Bad Penny's engines, in a day if he has to. I figure cleaning out and engine and checking it over is simpler. There was a little piece of aluminum casting in the bottom of the pan. No shavings or anything though. Not sure what that was about, but that's why we took it out to check over. Throw in some Royal Purple, and maybe I'll have enough power to play with Paypack :lol:

Matt

That'll buff out. :thumbsup:

Dear Matt's mom..... please tell your son he only has TWO days and then to get Barney out of the shop - I have to check my fluids and empty my mufflers.

Thank you,
G. :rofl:

Truer words were never spoken. She knows as long as it is there I will find ways of spending my money on it. She would also rather have me spend some quality time with the car than the former girlfriend who is in town this week. However, she knows as soon As I stop throwing money at my car, my dad will have a spot to throw her money at his car!

So Matt, tell me/us about the mod to the oil pan---looks like a windage tray--but it's for oil control I believe you said----would be curious as to its exact function and how you guys arrived at this paticular mod---looks like a stock LS pan.

Whatever you do, make sure it's ready to go by Friday morning--

D

Sure thing Doug. Let me do my best Todd impersonation. Hell, this is really just a long involved post about about me changing oil, and a few other things, and that's something Todd would do, right? Oh, and I was wearing black rubber gloves while working on my car, that is definitely Todd like :lol:

Let me retry this whole thing with some explanations/captions. I'm using the stock F-Body style windage tray (pictured below). I have been running this part since I got my car on the road.
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...A/IMAG0443.jpg

This little bugger in the oil pan is what is new though. From what I've heard, it is a vast improvement over the stock baffled insert, which barely qualifies as a baffle when you hold the two side by side. I chose this for two reasons. First and foremost, my car has just been sucking up oil when going to the track. At Adam's Motorsports Park out in Riverside, roughly 20 laps around the little track completely filled up my catch can, to the point that it was no longer functioning, and was sucking oil through the PCV line from the valley to the intake manifold. Under normal driving conditions the catch can collects a little bit of oil, but nothing out of the ordinary. I think I've just been experiencing one of the known shortcomings of LS engines with stock oiling systems, and that is that these engines are prone to lots of oil aeration at high RPMs, as well as oil starvation. The other reason I decided to use the Improved Racing trap door baffle was because I wanted to keep my F-Body pan for two reasons. First, it is supposed to provide some structural support to the engine, and second, I'm not running a remote oil filter, which I believe is required with a Canton pan.

http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...A/IMAG0444.jpg

Here is a video someone posted on youtube showing how effective the little trap door baffles supposedly are:


Is that a good explanation Doug?

Matt

Not bad sir. :D To think LS engines aren't perfect and Jason Pettis was right, stock LS oiling ain't that great.

Yeah, I'm probably not a good enough driver to have blown my engine up. Not sure if that is a good thing, or a bad thing. I have been worried about it though, and hopefully this gets my oil situation under control.

We're also a day behind schedule. I was hoping to get the car dyno tuned today, but putting everything back together and getting fluids back in it took longer than expected. We had to jack the front of the car up to fill the radiator and get the thermostat working again.

Tomorrow I'm hoping that TurnKey can get rid of a few pesky issues. The car almost refuses to drive at altitude, which isn't a huge deal because I'm not in the mountains often, however, I've always had to slip the clutch more than I'm comfortable with to get the car to go, and I really want to see if we can tune that out.

As you guys can see though, she's back together now!
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...A/IMAG0448.jpg

Matt

Car is looking great and ready to roll
 

I put that same baffel in my F-Body pan. It works great.

Okay so where can I buy this baffled Windage Tray