anyone make a dry sump oil pan

[whensparksfly]

im trying to dry sump my engine i was wondering as i like to make things my self would it be hard to they just look like a channel with a outlet ether end anyone make there own

 

[hotrodder]

They can be that simple or they can be a chunk more involved to take full advantage of dry sumping... removable baffle (windage tray) over the oil collection channel to facilitate cleaning the thing and a 'scraper' to drag excess oil off the crank for example. The shallower the pan can be made, the lower the engine can sit (assuming the clutch isn't already the limiting factor), this is why some split the central channel into two seperate resevoirs (crossmember clearance) or offset the collection trough to the side which does the same thing + takes advantage of the cranks rotational direction with regards to oil collection

 

[normspanners]

I have made /modded a few and HR is right re the windage plate if sealed to the left of the channel (on a clockwise engine) it also helps to keep the oil down in the channel during high G effects depending on whether transverse or not, the airflow helps stop it going the otherway , I have modded a few ally ones made by a well known tuning firm for vauxhall X20 X E s and the windage plate was spaced up evenly all round seems a daft idea to me it has the exact opposite of what it is there for, allowing the air to pass under the plate and even pick up the oil and redistribute it around the engine, instead of doing the job of ridding the internals of the engine of oil laden air, which acts like an invisible rope wrapped round the crank, slowing it and costing HP. Because the scavenging pumps, pump as much air as oil, maybe more in an atmospheric engine.
I have sealed the left of crank (viewed from the front) with tigerbond or some such to do two jobs to obviously seal it but also to help prevent vibrations cracking the thin plate.