Making a baffled sump.

I'm building a baffled sump for my Mk2 8v at the moment and looking for some advise on the position of the plates,the size and position of the holes that should be in the plates.I also need to leave gaps or notches at the bottom to allow the oil to be drained when changing the oil. I also have the windage tray to fit and this is the stage i'm at at the moment :

 

Hello Mate,

I am looking at doing this also some time soon for the MK1. However i have the MK2 sump to play with.

Just showing your link to a guy a work and he reckons on his 1.9 Pug sumps have a one way trap door set up into the pump side of the section plate.

Sounds like an OK idea to try! Shame the poxy French already thought of it.

Domma.......

 

Heres one a mate made, thats been shotblasted not painted....

 

Ive seen the trap door type on sumps from the states (not VW), I'm looking at something like what TSR did on the 16v ones :

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Yeay as long as the holes you put in both plates are not aligned like the shot blast one than the oil has less of a direct path to and frow across the sump!

Domma............

 

Silly question, When doing an oil change how do you get all the oil out of that pan.

 

Not sure on the TSR one but i'm going to cut notches in my plates to allow the oil to drain.

 

Ive cut the plates out and welded the baffle plates in, next need to get it sand blasted in and out and re-paint the outside.

Do the baffle hole look big enough to allow the oil to still flow enough?

 

does anyone know where i can get the dimensions for the baffles? i want a baffled sump for the mk1 and I was going to buy one all done but I now plan to get a sump from gsf at some point and make my own but if i can get a template from somewhere that will help as I dont have loads of time at work to do trial and error fitting, but at work is the only place I can get access to a welder

 

I have templates somewhere from the one I had made. Will have a look later.

 

sweet!!! if you do have them your a star!!

 

i would be interested in the templates if you could send them to me aswell???

 

what's the purpose of the baffling?

 

Helps prevent oil surge and possible oil starvation during long fast cornering or hard braking.

 

Right, I do have the templates, only problem is they are on an old HD that killed my last pc with viruses. I really don't want to risk plugging the drive in but my mate might still have the wooden ones he used as a template.

 

here are some pics of a shrick baffled sump i can take more if you want.

 

Id love the Shrick one but im buggered if im trying to make my own intersting to see though the path the oil has to take

Phil, if you could get the dimensions that would be brill.

cheers

Karl

 

im interested in doing the same thing with the sump on my 20vt if anyone has any templates or pics that would be great.

 

how much are the shrick sumps? and where can you get one from? just an idea and its prob too expensive