Originally Posted by
Jon Jeffords
I hate to say it, but if this were my engine I would find out who made the oil pan, and return the windage tray back to the factory geometry. I've seen way too many intuitively good ideas for oiling and breathing take a sh*t when tested on a dyno with plexiglass oil pans and high speed video recordings and strobe lights. As you mentioned in another thread, it's a 300 mph hurricane in the crankcase, and nothing behaves the way you think it will. If your mods have resulted in too much air windage/velocity under the tray, you may in effect be blowing the oil out of the trough.