Does anyone know if there is one in a 2.4?

 

what is it?

 

its a piece of metal or tray that sits below the crankshaft, and when ur gettin high rpms the oil will usually flow with the crankshaft kinda swirling with it, kinda slowing it down and keeping it around. what the tray does it disrupts the whole swirling and lets the crankshaft move more freely, and also it helps to prevent air pockets to form around the oil pump screen so it doesnt cause the pump to lose its prime

 

isnt that usually on just high performance motors? not sure though....someone will know

 

yea pretty much, but ive heard they started putting them on some of todays top model high pro engines, so i figured maybe chevy might have tried to squeeze some extra ponys out of the ecotec 2.4 buy putting a, at the most 10 dollar part in

 

The lower crankcase (bedplate) on the Ecotecs has a built-in windage/scraper. AFAIK none of the Ecotec build books have mentioned any additonal device required (other than the dry-sump engines)
HTH
WopOnTour

 

as long as they say it has that windage/scraper then im happy. thx

 

All Ecotec motors have a windage tray. Hell, even 3100/3400/3500/3.6VVT/3800/3900 motors have windage trays.

Don't know about the Gen III V8s.