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Originally Posted by DorkMissile
If you want to find some interesting info - look up the newest episode of engine masters. Watch the entire episode - a lot of information about windage (what I think this engine suffers from A LOT) and oil level
The problems with too much oil are way more severe than not enough
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My understanding is that while it's acceptable for street driving to have the oil level anywhere in the hash mark range, that's not the case for driving the car on road course tracks. LT1s don't have a dry sump and are therefore susseptible to oil (pump intake) starvation under sustained high G loads. The oil pan has baffles to try to combat this, but GM has employed additional techniques, including a 10qt oil capacity
AND the recommendation to keep oil at top of the hash marks when tracking the car.
I would expect that crankshaft aeration of the oil in the pan (another potential problem as you correctly point out) would NOT HAPPEN unless the oil level is above the top of the hash marks.