oil retention devices

[buzzinhalfdozen]

I'm not in favor of this on many levels, the cost, the service issues,the REAL need.First the cost, if you have room and can just get a garden variety diaper and install it great, go for it. However most of the cars I've seen would require quite a bit of reworking, if such a device had been incorporated into the build from jump street then all's well. I like Wade do most all of my own car building, build a new set of headers, yeah I can do it then I can drop another $300 for coating and throw my other perfectly good set in the scrap pile.First issue solved, next oil pan, nearly touches mid plate, well a new $700-$1000 oil pan should fix that.So for me at least, besides the labor time to fab up the headers and the cost of the diaper I'm in for about $1000 dollars. Now would I spend a grand to protect my race car, yeah you bet however as stated by some here it's still no guarantee, I'm not going to leak some fluid, for instance, A good freind of mine has a T/S car with a diaper a few years ago he's at a race leaves the line all the sudden car takes off on him, tags the wall, car goes back to RJ for repair. The culprit? He had a small water leak that kept collecting in the diaper once it had enough stored up well you can see how it turned out. As for service well seems to me it would require at the very least taking one side of it down, is that a pain, not sure but for some apps I'm quite sure it wouldn't be pleasent. And yeah the REAL need how 'bout showing us track oiling racers some data, data's good I've found it useful most every day in my life. I cannot say having one is a bad idea, however I can say it's a bad idea to make them mandatory, we simply can't run every possible scenario and come up with a fix for it, too many variables.So to the guys that have them cudos just don't make everyone else have to have them. Joe