Moroso’s clear oil pan for testing. Photos from Moroso’s Facebook fan page

We dug back in the archives a couple of years to find out how Moroso performs their oil pan testing. Controlling windage and oil movement within the oil pan is the key to making big horsepower. So.. how do you understand what is happening inside that very violent area of the oil pan without being able to see? Simple, you make a pan that you can see through.

Moroso’s clear oil pan allows the engineers to see many different aspects of oil flow and the effects of windage during dyno testing. With the use of a video camera, there is untold hours of documentation that can help the designers understand how to manufacture an oil pan, oil scraper or windage tray that helps save more of the horsepower that your engine creates.

The folks at Moroso aren’t shy about explaining how they use the clear oil pan: “We video it, and can watch it back slo-mo and figure out what’s happening a little better!”

The engineers at Moroso Performance are pretty keen on seeing what actually happens in the development and testing of products. Using clear components and video is not new for the experts, but interpreting the data is constantly changing as the engines and automotive technology continue to get better. Another example of using clear housings to see what happens under power is evident in Moroso’s video on how their air/oil separator works.

Watch Moroso Performance’s Video on How The Air/Oil Separator Works:

In this video, Moroso engineers built a clear body and went out on the highway. This video is shot on a bone stock 2009 Cadillac CTS-V with 24,000 miles on it. You can see a puff every time the driver lifted and oil running down the sides under hard acceleration and heavy downshifting as well as at the end when the driver was just driving back to the Moroso plant.

For more information on Moroso Performance and their products, visit them at www.moroso.com