Great Idea - Bolt on S2000 Sump Baffle

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

To give an idea of the S2000 sump height - as it's come up a few times recently, this is where my oil temp sender is on the sump...

And this is looking in from the side, roughly level with the underside of the GRP bodywork and the chassis...

It already feels exposed enough down their, I don't think my nerves would cope with it being much lower

[Stu Faulkner]

I already have a baffle welded in.

 

It will be a good chance for an oil change and clean the sump out.

Well it has been in two years, it must need a clean by now.

[Thrustyjust]

Dave something like this would fit nearer the sump and less chance of getting caught. 

 

http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/Product.do?method=view&n=1774&g=390998&p=109386&d=124&c=4&l=2&utm_source=Google&utm_medium=Base&utm_campaign=Gauge%20Sender%20Units&gclid=CPLVncOnv88CFfYK0wodWvgIqw

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

Not in my case unfortunately, it's a matched sensor, three wire type, to a Stack ST700.

[Andy (Sycho)]

I'm property going to do this but as Dave I don't fancy fitting it in the sump plug.

Dave is there any resson you had a boss welded on, couldn't you have just tapped a hole drilled in the sump?

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

Possibly Andy, but the Stack senders weren't small! And I was worried given the thread diameter and pitch that it would leak.

[Peter (Monty)]

Thanks for the photo Dave, now I'm terrified by the prospect of ever driving over a speed bump

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

I live on an estate with two entrance roads, there are really nasty shaped/proportioned sleeping policemen on one and slightly better profiled sleeping policemen on the other.

Neither side is a problem.

But, you've just got to be truthful to yourself about how you plan on using the car. There's no point telling your geo specialist that you need every last 1/100th of a second on track and that you live for the thrill of trackdays, if you only really do one or two and spend the rest of the year with the car practically as your daily driver. (And equally, there's no point telling them that you only ever use the car to drive to the pub on sunny Sunday lunchtimes, if in reality you drag on a trailer to every track in the country once a week).

The heights and ssuspension settings can be tweaked to suit, you just need a little care around road "features" and a bit of thought in the build side of things to not add to possible problems.

Don't forget, normally your front wheels will ride up and over any bumps and lift the sump up and away at the same time. That's why when crossing sleeping policemen, you want to hit them gently enough to not compress the front suspension too much, just let the car ride up and over them, the sump will clear fine.

The ones to watch for are the pillow type. (The ones that are almost square when looked at from directly above), that come in a row across the road, with wheel gaps between each pillow, for emergency services vehicles to get through unhindered.

DO NOT do what most people seem to do in their tin tops, and straddle the pillows with the car, so that your wheels go through the gaps. BAD things could happen!!

With this type, run your wheels over the humps and keep your sump over one of the wheel gaps. (You might have to wait for a break in oncoming traffic).

But these sorts of things are very rare, don't let it spoil your enjoyment.

[Peter (Monty)]

Thanks Dave. It's something I was already aware of, of course, but I hadn't seen that photo angle before. I live in Greater London where traffic calming measures are everywhere and the "pillow" speed bumps are extremely common. The tricky ones will be the single pillow each side, with a traffic island in the middle of the road... I guess you just have to move over and get one wheel up over the bump.

Thanks for the advice! [/tangent]

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

Yeah, one wheel on the hump works well too.

But don't panic about it, in practice, it's just not the issue it "looks" to be.

[stephenh]

Pah, that looks bags of clearance compared to some cars I could mention!