Windage Tray Height Location

-Boosted- said
I just had a discussion with my engine builder today about this. He said he can't assemble it until I get him the right main studs. I told him I did and he said no, he can't install the windage tray with the studs I gave him. I said exactly! He said I should run the windage tray for what I am doing. I thanked him for the advice and said "I'll go with what my buddy John told me". :thumbsup:

Thank you everyone!

My first issue was when I tried installing the stock windage tray with the ARP studs. But, I just opened up the mounting holes on the windage tray to accept the 3/8” studs which fixed this issue. The ARP stud kit came with (8) 3/8"-24 mounting nuts to locate and mount the tray.

Then the next problem was the windage tray won't sit down as low on the ARP studs as the stock main studs would allow, so when I put the stock pan over it, the stock oil pan would hit the tray in one corner. So, I trimmed out the windage tray to allow the pan to fit properly and now the pan drops onto the oil pan mounting studs with clearance.

The picture I posted originally, show the nuts on the studs up a little bit from the lowest mounting height. I have since lowered the tray as far down as the studs would allow before I started trimming out the tray. The first picture shows the area that I had to trim out to clear the stock oil pan once I had the tray as low as possible. The second picture shows the clearance around the pickup tube that was required at this new height.

I should be back on this Thursday night to clean up the cuts that I made on the windage tray and rotate the crank to see if everything clears.

Thanks again!