Let's Face It; Oil Surge Is A Total Pain In The Ass!
But Don’t Despair There Is A Fix. 

And It's not that difficult to cure, but there are certain things you must know about and we will show you what the simple design tricks are... and how you can save BIG bucks by building your own baffle system. 

It is a known fact that nearly all Ford/Lotus twin cam engines fitted to the classic Lotus elan & +2 elan, Lotus Cortina, Twin Cam Escort, Lotus Europa, etc, suffer from oil surge and the inevitable oil pressure loss during high speed competition events or fast road driving. Most driver's simply "back off" and wait a few seconds while the engine regains oil pressure. But why put up with an engine that does not have a well designed oil control sump baffle system installed?...  oil pressure loss could lead to serious engine bearing failure and some unwanted cylinder block "ventilation" when you least expect it!  

Oil is the lifeblood for your engine's survival. The crankshaft, main bearings and conrod bearings cannot survive without a constant pressurised film of oil between them. In the instant that oil flow is interrupted, metal-to-metal contact will occur which could potentialy destroy the crankshaft & engine bearings. If you run an expensive engine, you certainly don't want to risk your valuable investment to an inferior oil baffle system... many OEM engine sumps 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 engine deserves better than that.

 

Lets take a Look at the picture below, the early & later twin cam
 sump baffle layouts are totally ineffective, a poor baffle design will
not provide proper oil control within the sump!

 

Hardly what you would call an effective oil control method!

The diagram below illustrates what happens to the oil in the sump under hard cornering.

If the pump is not drawing oil, the pressure will drop and the bearings will be quickly starved of vital lubrication, the first indication of trouble will be a metallic rattle from within the engine... if the rattle stops, you are lucky... but the engine may have only been a split second away from a major blow up! But what about the next time?

So, what are the options you may ask?

1. Install an expensive Dry Sump System. (Not an ideal option for a normal road going elan)
2. Purchase a commercially available modified sump: The cost... $600.00 to $700.00US. (Also an unnecessarily expensive option for most elan owners).
3. Build Your Own Gated Baffled Sump! If you want to protect your TC engine, and you enjoy fabricating things for your lotus, then we can show & guide you how to build your own super reliable sump baffle system? 
   
   Difficult?... No, It's Not.

To build a simple, yet highly effective sump baffle system requires just a few hours of work, plus about $20.00 worth of sheet metal & small components.  

Hard to believe isn't it?... well, it's true.... because we've recently built this sump baffle system for our ford /lotus twin cam engine, and it work's brilliantly.

Now, we would like to show you how to fabricate & install this highly effective sump baffle design into your twin cam engine, anyone with good basic skills & knowledge plus a reasonable workshop can fabricate and work with sheet metal, it is possible to build projects that would otherwise cost you a lot of money, it is about working smarter, this highly effective sump baffle project can be built for a low cost. This oil control method is The Most Effective Sump Baffle Design available for any small ford block engine . 

Do you recall the metal fabricating skills you learned at trade school? Can 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 we can show you the step-by-step methods to build your own highly effective sump baffle system. And no, you wont have to enlarge the original  TC sump pan in any 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, build the baffle as directed in th ebook and your engine will NEVER experience oil surge, or oil pressure loss again. This could well 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 an 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?
Factory engine sumps are a compromise between the bean counters (Production costs) and the engineers... guess who usually wins out? 

Around motoring circles, you hear people waxing lyrical about dry sump sytems, 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 competitory, you don't have to resort to expensive race mods, 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 system available, forget about accusumps, and you can almost forget about dry 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 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 already done for you, every detail is fully outlined & explained step - by - step in an easy to follow fashion. 

While building the sump baffle project we shot a large number of clear detailed photographs, and wrote down the A to Z step-by-step detailed instructions on how to build the sump baffle system, the manual contains over forty pages of easy to understand, non technical instructions in PDF format (Opens on PC & MAC). You can start reading and learning right now, about how to build this unique sump baffle 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.

OK, here's the drum on some of the contents of the manual.

 

Page 3: Right at the beginning, we show 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 5: Explains the tools and gear you'll use, or need to access to build the project, things that many workshops already have.  

 

Page 7: And onwards, we get stuck right into the nitty gritty of preparing for the project.

 

Page 10: This is where you will find very important info about the many different oil pick-up pipes and types of 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 this 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 built the project from the ground up, we know that it works 100%, and we show you how & why it 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.

We were utterly amazed how this simple, but highly effective baffle system has totally eliminated the oil surge problem in our own elan S2DHC. (That's the red elan pictured top left of this page) 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 think the engine was fitted with a dry sump system! There is just no need to watch the oil gauge out of the corner of the eye any more that is for sure!

The unique sump baffle system controls the oil flow to allow the oil pump to deliver a constant oil pressure which should be
somewhere between 45 - 60PSI, depending on what type of pump is fitted to your TC engine.

The only regret is that we did not build and install this sump baffle system many years ago. It would be a safe bet that you don't 
want to keep putting up with oil surge & pressure loss either, it is a pain having to keep a constant eye on the oil gauge while driving. 

You don't have to spend bags of money, not when you can simply follow the step-by-step instructions to build your own
low cost, highly effective oil baffle control system... this system will put an end to the oil surge problem forever.

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 Wont Believe How Effective This Sump Baffle System Is.

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