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shortend sump
oliveoil - 3/7/15 at 08:11 AM

Hi gents l am building a luego with a1800 black top zetec. I bought a shortend sump off ebay and would like to know if l need to fit baffels to it, if so any ideas on how to do this thanks les


SJ - 3/7/15 at 08:49 AM

It is probably best to do so, but having said that I didn't baffle mine and have had no issues with oil starvation.

Stu


leon51274 - 3/7/15 at 09:33 AM

Personally I would. I had a shortened un-baffled sump on my silvertop zetec and suffered oil starvation that completely ruined my engine. Needless to say I now have a baffled sump which we managed to enlarge also to gain some more oil capacity which helps massively.

I believe the blacktop is a steel sump so should be fairly easy to weld some baffles inside.


Blueosis1 - 3/7/15 at 11:09 AM

if its for some track work then probaly yes


oliveoil - 6/7/15 at 01:45 PM

Hi Gents thanks for the info. Does anyone have diamensions or drawings of baffels l could get made up thanks les