Does anyone know anything about the Oil Baffle Plates racing beat sells? According to the web site - these plates slow down the travel of oil in order to get rid of the foaming. I currently am building a motor and want to know if I should install one of these. My mechanic said that these are good if you do a lot of cornering, otherwise there's really no need for them - my mentality is that if the engines have done good without these plates - then it's not really like these plates are a necessity.

 

It's really only necessary for roadracing - where sustained high rpm foams the oil and oil slosh may allow the foam to inhibit flow to the oil pump.

 

Ive always run one in my engines.Its so cheap I saw no reason not too,considering it can only help.....oil pressure is kinda important,so is oil cooling!!

Anything that gets the air out of the oil before its sucked back up by the pump,will increase oil pressure and decrease oil temperature.The rotors do a good job of stirring up the oil while they wobble around and spill out their excess.Plus the pressure bypass is constantly pissing oil back into the pan,making more bubbles.

Its especially helpful if your turbocharged since the turbo will really froth up the oil, spinning upwards of 100,000RPM.
The only downside I see is that you have to replace the oilpan bolts with longer ones and run a second pan gasket.There is more potential for leaks,but if your careful during assembely,you can do it neat and clean.

 

I run one. Helps the engine for high RPM track usage. No gaskets at all, just RTV... no leaks

 

Cool, thanks for the info guys

 

I have both two gaskets and oil baffle plate and there is no need for longer oil pan bolts, just be careful not to overtorque as they are apparently proneto shearing.