

| Subject: | Windage, Ullage and so on |
| From: | pensioner |
| Date: | Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:39:03 -0700 |
Ever notice in a crosswind how you have to steer into the wind a bit to stay on the straight and narrow. A windage tray is used to store the windage that you accumulate from this manuever so you can use it when the wind is from the other direction and thus avoid this countersteering. Check the recent thread on electrolysis for parallel thinking. An ullage baffle is even more baffling. It helps to keep the crankycase contents from sloshing about more than is necessary. Or during those 2.0G chicanes, it keeps oil near the pump scavenging apparatus so the pump has oil to send to the oil pressure sender and beyond... Advanced baffling can reduce the frothing-at-the-mouth characteristics of oil starvation and provide additional horsepower formerly dissipated as heat through the thrashing of the various mechanicals by keeping most of the oil in the sump bottom. Check the archives for "ullage". p
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