Roger, I agree that oil starvation is real. And your explaination is plausible..infact I have had many posts (old archives) on the subject & personally emailed/talked to experts at Roush, SVE, Reinke, Mirko, Capaldi, Mumm, Bondurant..universal agreement that on the track 1) oil starvation is real and 2) baffeling the pan by itself does not eliminate the problem but 3) baffling + accusump does. The old posts by Horse relayed from Roush about head drainage problems was convincing and NOW we have Ford making a new baffeled pan and extra head drainage.
However, I did a long (it was up for months and back up) survey years ago on this forum and even checked with Mondeo.org & NECO. About forty percent lost motors similar to what you describe...hard right turn at high RPM. Clear cut oil starvation. Another 10-15% low oil possibly contibuted. But about 40+% were described as no turns prior, good oil level...no suggestion of oil stavation found..and I pushed the questioning because at that time I was baffeled..I though oil starvation was the only answer. But when Judge came out on the OEM damper company testing and the problems they found, I became a believer. Many cars may not have a problem with whip..but we have a crank that was shortened after the original design was laid down and simple aluminum bearings that are not well suited to whip, and a peak power near 7K RPM, something that has SVT Duratecs near redline alot more than most domestics.
So, I believe both are problems..and for those who do not race the car, the crank whip may be the bigger problem. and we have an easy solution, why take chances. You can underdrive individual accesories if you want, I will be but power gain is minimal..just good for accesories.
and how about this...Ford has actually addressed ALL of what I consider the big 3 Duratec problems..
extra head drainage
baffeled pan
DMD
ceramic H2o pump
I personally think we should all be doing the 3 easy ones....just to play it safe. And keep 6 quarts of quality synthetic in the sump. AND keep RPMs down a bit in the hard right handers unless you spring for accusump. I bet near nobody loses a motor who does all this. I am burned out on this subject..that all Ive got.
