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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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...

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.