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Posted by: Dtjaden Feb 14 2014, 07:28 PM

Should I install a windage tray in my 2056 engine street build? Pros, cons.

Posted by: mrbubblehead Feb 14 2014, 08:26 PM

if your keeping it stock/wet sump i would. if your going dry sump then yank it.

Posted by: McMark Feb 14 2014, 09:39 PM

Sure. At sustained high rpm it can restrict flow back to the sump. But not an issue in a street car.

Posted by: Java2570 Feb 14 2014, 09:43 PM

I'm doing a 2056 build using a 1.7 W serial # case; it doesn't have provision for a windage tray. If it did, I'd stick one in but as it doesn't I'm not sweating it.

Posted by: euro911 Feb 15 2014, 12:04 AM

Really? ... 1.7 cases don't have trays?

I'll be digging into my wife's motor soon ... really interested in what we'll find when we open it up - everybody who has ridden in or driven it swears it's bigger than a 1.7

I've seen tray modifications that allow a greater volume of oil to flow though.

Posted by: Java2570 Feb 15 2014, 08:10 AM

My case is from '70 I think; perhaps they added them later on but I was thinking only the 2.0L cases had the slots for the trays. I know my 2.0L has one......
Maybe adding a tuna can oil sump extension would be a good halfway point? I've seen a lot of opinions on both sides of the fence....seems like most folks, if they do put them in, modify them anyway.

Posted by: nathansnathan Feb 15 2014, 09:22 AM

I know the EA 1.7 cases I've split have windage trays. I have 3 of them that do. Bus cases don't have the slots sometimes I've read.

Posted by: Java2570 Feb 15 2014, 10:43 AM

So perhaps after '72 it was added to the 1.7 cases? One would think the Bus would've
benefited from having the tray...

Posted by: John Jentz Feb 15 2014, 11:02 AM

"W" cases don't have the windage tray mounting recess. "EA" do.

Posted by: Olympic 1.7 Feb 15 2014, 11:24 AM

My '73 1.7 case has the tray. I think it is a EA case...

I saw someone that had drilled a couple extra holes in theirs I think it was one per quarter. any real benefit to this? Or maybe I should ask any detriment to doing this...

Posted by: Dtjaden Feb 15 2014, 04:00 PM

Thanks everyone for your input. I decided to use the windage tray.

Now for the rest of the story. I was assembling my case and following along with Jake's type 4 assembly video. I was down to the last couple of case nuts when I realized that I had not but in the windage tray. Jake's video is for a VW type 4 and there is no windage tray in that assembly. Soo...

I swore a little, split the case again, put in the windage tray and put the case back together. Ah well...

If there is a moral to this story, it would have payed to make a list of assembly steps for the specific engine I was building and not blindly follow a generic video.