Craftsman Built Lotus Parts

Oil is like yer blood, yer engine's gotta have plenty of it to survive!

The crankshaft, main bearings and conrod bearings cannot survive without a constant pressurised film of oil between them. As each brief oil surge period occurs (oil flow interruption) and metal-to-metal contact occurs, eventually the time will arrive when the bearings & crankshaft will suffer severe damage.

If you run an expensive engine, you certainly don't want to risk your valuable investment to an inferior oil supply system... many OEM engine sump & baffle designs are a compromise between economical production solutions and a just "OK method" of oil control.

Just "OK oil control" is simply not good enough... your performance engine deserves better than that!

The baffles inserted into the standard twin cam oil pans above might be OK if you drive slowly to church once a week along a straight road, but heaven help if you feel inspired on the way home to enjoy a spirited drive along your favourite road with lots of tight corners. The standard sump baffles are really quite pathetic... in a nutshell they just don’t work, and you can’t expect them to.

You need something much better... but what?

Install an expensive Dry Sump System? (Costalotta $$) What about a professionally custom modified sump; Also pretty expensive at $600.00 to $700.00US. Some people even use a thing called an oil accumulator, and they seem to work OK, but where do you put the bulky storage cylinder in an elan... you've got hoses, connectors that could potentially leak oil everywhere, maybe you could get your passenger to hold it? On the other hand... maybe not.

But all jokes aside, the only way is to fabricate a unique baffle system that is tucked away into the standard sump (You do NOT have to enlarge the sump in any way).

The sump baffle system we will show you how to build is an amazingly simple and highly effective way to control the oil surge problem in the twin cam sump as well as in other types of oil pan sumps. The material costs are less than $20.00, plus you'll spend a few enjoyable & rewarding hours following the directions to fabricate & build the parts in your own workshop.

We are not just spinning you a few yarns to sell our ebook, we are not that silly. We've recently built this sump baffle system for our Ford /Lotus twin cam engine, and it work's brilliantly. Now, we want to show you how to fabricate & install this highly effective sump baffle design into your twin cam engine, anyone with good basic metal work skills & knowledge plus a reasonable workshop will be able to fabricate the parts.

This brilliant design sump baffle project can be built for a very low cost, it is a highly effective oil control system... arguably The Most Effective Sump Baffle Design available for any small Ford engine. If you have sheet metal fabricating skills, know how to use a gas (Oxy) welder to do some simple bronze or braze welding? (Or you know someone who can)... and you also have a good sense of mechanical nouse... then you will be able understand & follow the step-by-step methods to build your own highly effective sump baffle system.

Please note: You don’t have to enlarge the original TC sump pan in any way shape or form.... we'll show you how to go about fabricating and setting up the special parts that fit inside of the standard twin cam sump, this system, once installed, will eliminate oil surge in any twin cam engine. If you build the baffle as directed (Do not alter the design...it works) in the ebook and your engine will be cured of any oil surge, or oil pressure loss. This could be one of the best engine mods you could ever do, it will provide 100% reliable oil feed to the oil pump. (Apart from fitting a very expensive dry sump system).

Why is it that people spend thousands of dollars building high performance engines, then proceed to use a poorly designed standard sump with pathetic oil control baffles? Factory engine sumps are a compromise between what the bean counters say things should cost (Production costs) and what the engineers would really like... guess which party usually wins out? Yep, the BC’s. And the customer is then denied a high quality oil control system!

If you hang around motoring circles long enough, you will hear people waxing lyrical about dry sump systems, and yes, it sounds pretty cool to tell everyone how high tech your car is, but the honest truth is, unless you are a very serious motor sport competitor, you don't have to resort to expensive race mods like that, but if you sprint, club race, or just like driving your elan hard along twisty winding roads, then you really do need an affective 100% reliable sump baffle oil control system.

Our new manual clearly outlines how the enthusiast elan owner can build a sump baffle in the home workshop, but this is not just any old sump baffle, this design is arguably one of the best designed sump baffle systems available, (Yes, it is a race & fast road proven design) forget about accu-sumps. Once you understand how effective this system is, you will wonder why you have not built one sooner. The baffle system is not difficult to build, providing you have access to some sheet metal working tools and general workshop equipment, and you are capable of doing the work your self... and most home mechanic enthusiasts could do the work. That is where the cost savings are made.

You won't have to go figure "How To Do It", because all of the design work has been done for you, every detail is fully outlined & explained in a step - by - step easy to follow fashion. While building the sump baffle project we also shot a large number of clear detailed photographs, and documented the A to Z step-by-step detailed instructions on how to build the sump baffle system, the PDF manual contains over forty pages of easy to understand, non technical instructions (Opens on PC or MAC).

You can start reading and learning right now about how to build your own sump baffle oil control system.

On pages 30 & 31 of the manual, there's a series of photographs which provide a unique "con rod" view into the depths of the sump where you can actually see how the baffles operate while cornering... a really fascinating picture sequence to look at... these "inside the sump" pictures have never been revealed before.

Here Is A Short Summary Of The ebook.

Page 3:
Right from the beginning, we reveal the six simple pieces of sheet metal & a few small metal components you'll need to build the baffles, (The material cost: remember, is less than $20.00) Then below that is another photo showing a finished baffle, you get to understand right away what you are going to build.

Page 10:
This is where you will find very important info about the many different oil pick-up pipes and types of oil strainer used (And things that you must be very aware of to avoid problems) plus we'll explain how to go about repositioning & supporting the oil pick up pipe so that it works best with the new baffle set up. (This is one of the secrets to the design).

Page 13:
(Heck, that's not even halfway through the manual, & there's another 27 pages to go) You'll learn how to make a simple, but very important jig that will allow you to accurately set up & position the oil pick up pipe at the correct height (depth)... works even if the engine is still in the car.

There's page after page of detailed info, we don’t hold anything back, we have actually built the project from the ground up and carried out extensive road testing, so we know that it works 100%, we show you how & why the baffle works, the hard yakka has been done for you... now it's your turn to get cracking in your own workshop. There is a good chance that a few engine builders wont like what you are going to learn from this new ebook.

To be nonest, we were utterly amazed how this simple, yet highly effective baffle system has totally eliminated the oil surge problem in our own elan S2 DHC. Since the modification was completed, the elan has covered over 1000 miles of fast Alpine road testing here in Australia, and we simply cannot fault the system, it is that good, you'd actually think the engine was fitted with a dry sump system! There is just no need to watch the oil gauge any more that is for sure!

If you enjoy fabricating things for your lotus, then this project will give you immense personal reward and satisfaction not to mention the BIG dollars saved. You Simply Wont Believe How Effective This Sump Baffle System Is.

Col.
This is a great and very detailed ebook manual
on how to build a baffled sump system that works.

Rohan Hodges.
S4 elan Historic Competitor.
Australia.

Hi Col.
The sump baffle ebook is pretty well written - I've
read through it once and all is well explained. I
plan to pull the elan motor some time in the next
12 months for a thorough overhaul etc, I plan to
have a crack at the sump then.Regards.
Bill Nibbs.
ACT Aust.

Hi Col.
I have read thru the How to Build a Sump Baffle ebook.
It seems to be well written and has very good detail.
The reference to a well equipped shop is a little
understated, but a person should be able to hire out
some work that he may not have tools to build. I had
a pan baffled by a Lotus parts supplier here in the USA
not long ago and was not even close to this in detail.
It did not have gates, and no windage tray. I think the
curved windage tray will also add to the mod greatly.
I know you have thoroughly tested your design
and I am sure it works well.

Many thanks.
Mark.
Iowa USA.

The standard twin cam sump shown above is also fitted with a curved windage tray, the unique baffle system fits neatly under the tray. The curved windage tray is a slightly better option than a flat tray, but both will work equally
well. It does not matter what type of engine you are building, this baffle design can be adapted to many different types of inline 4 or 6 Cyl engines.

The sole purpose of the baffle is to control the oil so that it is always available to the oil pump pick up pipe, and the manual will show you how to achieve that.This manual will show you all of the simple tricks and techniques you need to know about building and installing a sump baffle system into your Ford/Lotus twin cam engine.

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