Hi guys. Thought I would chime in. Some of you have heard this before but I've been quiet the last few years and recently rejoined the list.
Within a year of purchase (in 98) I was experiencing low oil pressure at high rpms, returning to good pressure at idle. Just the opposite of a worn pump. Turned out the pump had been changed to the larger 36 mm size and the original baffle reinstalled. It didn't fit right, fell off, got chewed up and plugged the pick up screen. I cleaned everything up and reinstalled a new baffle. Within another year...been there done that. Second time around I went without the @#!%#@#% baffle. That was 35k miles ago and all is well. I wish I had thought of using the integrated windage tray... Darron Schneider 1989 Jetta GLI 16V > From: "Trickey, Phillip" <[email protected]> > To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> > Subject: Baffle and 8V (was RE: [a2-16v-list] Schrick/Autotech Aluminum Oi > l Pan) > Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 11:32:43 -0500 > > Interesting....does anyone know what years, if any, 8V GTIs came with the/a > factory baffle? Is there a difference between the 8V/16V baffle? > > Phillip T. > 91GTI8V > 87AudiCGT > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Hauptmann, Eric [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 11:11 AM > > To: 'DocWyte'; Hauptmann, Eric; [email protected]; > > Steve Work (E-mail) > > Subject: RE: [a2-16v-list] Schrick/Autotech Aluminum Oil Pan > > > > > > He has an 8V that has no baffle, but supposedly the 16V come > > with a small baffle that clips on the oil pump pick up tube. > > That's what he wants to use. it's not an after-market baffle. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: DocWyte [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 11:06 AM > > To: Hauptmann, Eric; [email protected]; Steve Work (E-mail) > > Subject: RE: [a2-16v-list] Schrick/Autotech Aluminum Oil Pan > > > > > > I don't think the factory baffle is worth bothering > > with. > > > > I've never starved my 16v with all my auto-x and track > > school driving. No baffle, no windage tray. Just > > make sure you have the proper amount of oil in the > > pan. > > > > -josh > > > > > > --- "Hauptmann, Eric" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > The one he was hoping to use is reportedly the > > > factory baffle used on 16v > > > cars and clips on the oil pump pick up tube. > > > > > > It looks like there would not be enough clearance to > > > use both the windage > > > tray AND this baffle. > > > > > > As for the oil starvation concern, he is going to be > > > in there replacing the > > > oil pan so figured all it could do was help. this > > > car is used for AutoX and > > > the track so the oil will be moving around. > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: DocWyte [mailto:[email protected]] > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 10:26 AM > > > To: Hauptmann, Eric; [email protected]; > > > Steve Work (E-mail) > > > Subject: RE: [a2-16v-list] Schrick/Autotech Aluminum > > > Oil Pan > > > > > > > > > Depends on the design of the oil pump baffle. Some > > > will fit, some won't. So then it will be one or the > > > other. > > > > > > Why the worrying about oil pump starvation? Are you > > > doing circle track racing? > > > > > > -josh > > > > > > > > > --- "Hauptmann, Eric" <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > Josh, > > > > > > > > Can the windage tray can be used in conjunction > > > with > > > > an oil pump baffle. My > > > > brother is planning on putting both of them on his > > > > '87 8V GTI. He has not > > > > taken the pan off yet...but it looks like the > > > > windage tray could interfere > > > > with the installation of the baffle onto the oil > > > > pump. This would make it a > > > > one or the other proposition....in which case > > > he'll > > > > go with the oil pump > > > > baffle. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Eric > > > > > > > > > ===== > > > Josh Wyte > > > Momentum Motorsports > > > 508-833-3024 After 5 pm EST > > > > > > > ===== > > Josh Wyte > > Momentum Motorsports > > 508-833-3024 After 5 pm EST > >
