Small Block car DIY Oil Pan Baffle - big block truck pan re-purpose!

DionR said

Curious if you checked the oil level before setting the baffle depth. I put 3 quarts of water in my pan and then matched that for a baffle depth based on an old Ehrenburg article.

I don't know that it really matters a bunch, just curious if you did anything similar.

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I did. Three quarts already goes above the baffle, four quarts way over it and we’ll into the pan.

you wouldn’t want to make the baffle as high as the level of oil in the pan with 3 or 4 quarts in it as your baffle would be so high it would likely hit the crank. Keep in mind, 1 litre in the filter, and how much oil is not in the pan just from ciculation? 1.5 - 2 litres? I don’t know. In fact if anyone here know how much oil is actually ‘in use’ while the engine is running I’d like to know.

‘’the idea of the baffle is to keep the oil around the pick up Under high g’s side To side or fro t to back. You should almost always have about 2 quarts in the bottom of the sump and around the pick up in my guesstimation.