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I have been doing a little thinking about oil pan baffles,windage trays and crankscrapers,Seems like an easy/cheap way to pickup up some power with parts that seem to me could never give any problems.But I have some questions.

Pan baffles
I am talking about the ones that go between the oil pump and rear main cap.Not the ones built into the pan itself.Since there is no way to dyno something like that(that I know of),does anyone have any experience that showed you that it really helped?I understand the idea is to keep oil off the rear of the crank by preventing it from "climbing".But,when the oil drains down the back of the block,around the dist. shaft(which it seems it would since you're accelerating forward),wouldn't it kinda "waterfall" off the baffle and fall into the crank anyways?

Windage trays.
I have seen the louvered ones go for about $25,and the screen type go for as much as $125.What is the difference between the two.And,will the oil find it's way thru the tray to return to the sump quick enough?

Crank scrapers
Okay.Let's say the engine turns clockwise looking at it from the front.I can understand the scraper being on the passenger side of the block.It would scrape the oil off the crank onto the BOTTOM side of the scraper,and it would fall back into the pan(if it didn't just caught up in the crank again?).But it seems to me that the scraper on the driver side of the block would collect oil on TOP of itself(since the crank is turning "down" into it)and that the oil would be more in the way than if you just ran a scraper on the pass side.
Can the oil drain off the scrapers,especially the driver side,without getting caught up in the rotating assembly?

I have little experience with this stuff and NO experience with oil control at all.My "race" motor is running the bone stock system that the General put in the BBC's,and I have had no issues with it so far.Any advice or opinions on my system as a whole(not just what I asked about)would be greatly appreciated. Thanks