Question about oil screen box & RTV

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Originally Posted by KillerBMotorsport

Oil going around 90-degree corners happens all over the place in your engine. Even when you break the corners and open the passages, you only see marginal changes from that. At some level (like building a $30K engine) it makes sense to commit that kind of time/effort. I don't think it adds up to much here.

ALTHOUGH, I'll cut a pickup apart soon and measure the mesh's total open area. Blocking off say 25% of that COULD have a pretty profound effect on oil flow characteristics. A combination of the two only compounds things.

Yes. If there was a small blockage in one passage it may be fine with full flow but the slight reduction due to the blocked pickup may push it over the edge.
Would really like to know if there is more damage elsewhere though. All the theories hinge on just how widespread throughout the engine the signs of starvation actually are.