Small Block Oiling Mods - Are They Beneficial?

I use windage trays on every smallblock i open the oil pan on. My plow truck has one...lol In terms of small blocks, with the short oil pan rail and wide open oil pans, they need something to simply seperate the crank from the sump. They don't pull oil off the crank really well, that's what a scraper's for. But they keep oil from getting pulled into it from the sides of the crank case and the oil sitting in the sump. I use stock volume oil pumps, factory pans, and lightly modified factory windage trays on everything I do that doesnt need sustained rpms over 5K or peak rpms over 6500. You must run studs to use any tray on the 4" cranks. One of the mods in that case is drilling the mounting holes in the tray to 3/8". Then you can mount it no closer than .100" to the bottoms of the connecting rods. The counterweights are not the closest at any point. The closest part is the rear set of connecting rods when they are close to the pan rails. You also have to tweak the pan by opening the slots to about double what they start at, and the curve is a little tight for the 4" crank so you need to make the radius of the curve in the pan a little larger while maintaining the total width of it. Everything takes about 20 minutes if you take your time.