"A Mopar Performance windage tray will provide you with more positive engine lubrication by reducing the interior windage at higher engine speeds." Right from an engine builder.
seems you did not understand what i said, but the mopar engine builder would and agree with what i said, let me try it more detailed this time and also from a engine builder.
When the crank is spinning it creates a vortex, imagine a tornado...... if you block the effect of the tornado by closely putting in a barrier to keep the tornado's spinning effect from LIFTING and keeping oil or debris in it's vortex, you are allowing the oil or debri to FALL away to the bottom of the pan so it can be collected by the OIL PUMP pick up and that is how you get better lubrication......
EXACTLY what i said that you're mopar performance quote didn't explain as i did TWICE.
So if i put you in a tornado and then dropped a wall in front of it i would save you from being sucked into the tornado and keeping you at the bottom...
THE crank spins, it creates that exact same phenomenon inside your motor and the windage tray BLOCKS that, and by being kept tight to the cranks spinning it allows to oil in the spinning vortex to hit the metal pan and by being so close it makes it hard for the crank to pull it off and then the oil runs to the baffles or screen and accumulates into a droplette and DRIPS back to the sump area or bottom of the pan and gets back to the oil pump pick up and by doing that it gets pumped back to thru the motor where it does more good then being caught up in a tornado like vortex in the crankcase.
This is also why dry sumps are better since they can incorporate multiple returns and create a vacuum countering the vortexs ability to become to strong. . .
Now i explained it 3 times with more detail then MP will ever get into, and i completed building 3 new motors this week, and it's only tuesday.
That's why on road race specific oil pans, you see kickouts in the pan and such. To help control the oil and keep it from getting on the crankshaft. Same with a windage tray.
. Road race pans have trap doors to keep the oil around the pick up under accel, braking and turning, the doors are usually set up triangulated to some extent depending on the sump shape and in left turns the the left side doors open emptying the kick out on the left side while the right side doors close, keeping the oil covering the pick up at the center of pans sump and not sloshing past it to the right side kick out starving the motor of oil, and the same happens as the car brakes and makes a right and eccels.
The windage tray only performs the 2 above examples.
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