Well then let me make this comment. I picked up a windage tray today that was part of an engine in a box. The engine was out of a 78 VW Bus / Westfalia. Apparently the PO was going to build an engine and use the windage tray. I got the heads which you know about and put them on E-bay. (They fit the 94mm barrels ok) The rods looked good but I hesitated to buy them because they are different that the rods in the CV series engines. When we discussed oil fans following the crank / rod journals and keeping the oil in the pan rather than slinging around the crank case. The windage tray sounded like a reasonable Type IV addition that would possibly lower operating temperature (if you're going to be in there anyway). At any rate its the first one I've seen as part of a VW engine. Stan Wilder
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:31:40 -0400 Robert Donalds <bostneng@FCL-US.NET> writes: > Stan wrote > >Seems strange that VW stopped using the windage trays in the > pre-Vanagon > >years. > Stan > the windage tray was only ever used on the 914 engines to keep the > oil down at the bottom of the block in hard cornering then the > engine would not loose oil pressure when the oil climbed the wall of > the block and not so much to keep it away from the spinning mass > B. Bob > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. |
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