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Old 12-20-2009, 01:39 PM
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This is for a FI build. I am going to use stock valve covers and stock car coil packs. I am going to get one fitting welded on each valve cover. The top valve cover is for the driver side, I plan on having the fitting welded right in that opening. The bottom valve cover is the passenger side with the oil fill. Would you suggest using the stock passenger side cover with the fill and placing the AN fitting there or would you use another similar valve cover similar to the driver side. The reason I ask is because there is a baffle on the driver side cover and wouldnt be if I used the oil fill location.
Would this suck up a ton of oil?

See second picture for comparison.

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i welded a plate on the other side too
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It looks like you decided to make a baffle, so you dont suck up too much oil. Looks good. Where did you relocate your coil packs and why did you relocate them. Are those -10 or -12 fittings?

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-10AN fittings. coilpacks are on the cowl thanks to thunderracing
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when should some one run a set up like that? two -10 an lines to a catch can with a breather? over using the stock pcv with a breather
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friend tj did this!

valve covers with AN fittings welded in. lines are run to a breather tank.



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how do you put oil in ? haha
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Originally Posted by SIC LSX
friend tj did this!

2 drivers side valve covers with AN fittings welded in. lines are run to a breather tank.


Looks very nice. What size AN fittings and what kind of catch can?

I assume he fills through the an fitting at the passenger side front, just take a little bit longer.
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yes he fills buy in bolting it on passenger side and using a funnel. He has a big catch can with breather on top of it down where your air pump would be hidden. I believe it is -10. I think he was thinking about selling these covers at one time. His user name on here is TJ
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this gets rid of the pcv system right? what about the vally cover?
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Is there a diagram to routing the lines for the catch can?
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it simple run lines from valve covers to where ever you mount ya catch can with breather on top.

something i drew up real quick

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Just cap off the valley cover? Then run the line back to the TB port?

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if you run a ls6 valley cover just cap it off and the intake if you run a breather set up
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I am getting fittings welded in like Sic's pictures. I am capping off the valley cover and the TB port. The lines run to the catch can only. The catch can will have a filter.
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u can use basically anything like this

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In your drawing you show the lines joining together in a T then running in a single hose to the breather tank. If you have the space it is better to run a separate line from each cover to its own fitting on the breather tank. When you do it like you have laid out you are effectively cutting the inner diameter of the final hose by 50% as you ask the single hose to handle both side's flow. Each side should have its own hose, preferably a -10 or larger.

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if you wanna run 2 you can but it isn't necessary
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Originally Posted by DeltaT
In your drawing you show the lines joining together in a T then running in a single hose to the breather tank. If you have the space it is better to run a separate line from each cover to its own fitting on the breather tank. When you do it like you have laid out you are effectively cutting the inner diameter of the final hose by 50% as you ask the single hose to handle both side's flow. Each side should have its own hose, preferably a -10 or larger.

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If you have enough blowby that you need two -10 lines out of each breather... you have big issues. Think about a vacuum pump setup, they only go off one valvecover with a -12 line.

Now with my alcohol Outlaw 10.5 car that made 2200hp, yes I needed to -10 lines to a puke tank, but that was for 30 psi of boost and a Waterman big bertha fuel pump pushing a boat-load of alcohol through the motor. On a street car, even a boosted one, one -10 should be more than sufficient.
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What do you guys think about running a single #10 line from the valley cover? I'm thinking about doing that with my setup.

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