Windage tray

[rdezsofi]

Working on rebuilding a 1.6 diesel NA, and I have a new windage tray I was thinking about putting in. I'm having second thoughts, as this is a naturally aspirated engine, which means no 'oil squirters' to the underside of the piston. Also, VW does not build an oil galley into the connecting rods to supply oil up to the piston pins. This leads me to think that the only oil supplied up to the piston pins is from whatever gets splashed up and flung off the crankshaft. Anyone have any thoughts on a windage tray maybe affecting that, resulting in insufficient oil to the piston pins/piston pin bushings/lower cylinder walls???

Supposedly the windage tray is an update from VW??

[R.O.R-2.0]

well, since the windage tray goes UNDER the crank, you are going to have no issues using it. the pistons and everything else are ABOVE the crank..

you want to keep all the oil in the pan, away from the crank. there is enough oil being flung off the crank to lube everything just fine..

newer VWs indeed do have rifle drilled rods.. never heard of an issue with wrist pin bushings tho, with or without the rifle drilling..