Drag Racing Tech - PVC ? please come in and help if you can

hey there i have a 98 camaro heads cam and all bolt ons. i been thinking and readig on here about the sorry pvc systems we have. i had to pull the head not long ago and my intake was covered in oil.

i been reding about the breathers on the oil fill neck and on the back of the drive side valve cover. then takeing off everything else. will this work for a car that is drive alot and on some road trips? my car smokes alot and i beleave its from the pvc after dumping the oil out the line by the intake. i have a home made catch can in line and it works some but not all the ways. and i wana get rid of the smoking and oil in the intake.

here is a ? for you guys. can i run a tube from the driverside head to the nipple on the back of the pass valve cover. then block off the front nibble on pass valve and TB. and block off the port on the intake. and jsut ru na breather on the pass side valve cover to vent everything? Will that be a enough? and what whould the pro's and cons be?

thanks and please help me out here. yes im a newbi but i like learning iv asked many ? on here with no help most of time. SO PLEASE help me out here
Eddie

I daily drive my car and have two breathers. one on each valvecover. I did this cause my last motor had REALLY bad blow by and my catch can set up wasn't enuff.
BTW i've had the stock PCV gone for a long time(have the intake nipple and TB nipple blocked off). Before the breathers i just had a catch can that vented underneath the car. it worked great but did get oil underneath my car. i now like the breathers ALOT better.
If your car doesn't have bad blow by i think one breather would be enuff.
http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=397465

my car does have bad blow by. intake was full of oil last time i took it off. and i want t oget rid of that. cause i hate a car that smokes. and we all know it wont take much oil to make a lot of smoke LOL.

I put a breather on the drivers side valve cover, plugged the rear port on the passenger valve cover. Then I ran the front port to the pcv valve leaving it plugged into the intake, and plugged the fresh air on the TB. I just did it tonight but I think it should work fine. Eventually I'll put a catch can before the pcv valve.

what did you do about the driver side valve cover in back? you plug it?

That is where I put the breather.

ok what if i put a breather on the pass side where the fill neck is (got one ordered) then run a line from the driver side to the pass side rear port, and block the front port on pass side and block the fresh air one on tb and cap off the intake and be done with the pcv all together? will this work? and if you have a idea on to modify what im thinking please let me know please.

what part number or wherer do you get the fliter you usr for the driver side valve cover?

You need to have some sort of flow through the engine. Like two breathers, or one with some sort of vacume being pulled on the system.

ok what if i do it that way but use the front port on the pass valve cover to the port on the intake? then just block off the fresh air on on the TB


and thank you for all your help. just trying to get more ideas on what i can and cant do. and what kind of breather did you use for the back of the driver valve cover?

If your going to have the breather on the pass side, pull the vacume for the pcv off the drivers side, and plug everything else.

ok thanks again. just to make sure on all this. im putting my breather where the fill cap whent on the pass side. then ru na line from the back of the driver side head to the pcv valve then to the intake. then block off the 2 nipples on the pass valve cover and the fresh air on the TB? is that right?

Sounds good.

sounds good man and one more ? to make sure. if i deside to run a breather on the driver side and the passenger side. i just cap off the 2 nipples on the pass valve cover and the nipple on the intake wehre the pcv was? and fresh air on the TB?

If you run two breathers, plug all the nipples.

even the intake one right?

anyone have pics or part #'s for the breathers??
thanks

Wouldn't you be able to connect the passenger side and driver's side valve covers together with a crossover tube and then just run one large metco style breather?

Has anyone got a part for a breather that will pop in the back of the drivers side valvecover? I'd like to do awya with teh PCV on my car all together... if I can get a breather that will go in the hole on the stock vavelcover, and one of those breather oil caps, I'd be all over it.

All I'd have to do after that is gut the whole PCV off the car, plug the little lone int eh back and front of the passengers side valve cover, and plug the line going to the TB and the line to the intake..... or am I missing something?

Has anyone got a part for a breather that will pop in the back of the drivers side valvecover? I'd like to do awya with teh PCV on my car all together... if I can get a breather that will go in the hole on the stock vavelcover, and one of those breather oil caps, I'd be all over it.

All I'd have to do after that is gut the whole PCV off the car, plug the little lone int eh back and front of the passengers side valve cover, and plug the line going to the TB and the line to the intake..... or am I missing something?
The Metco breather is the one that replaces the oil fill cap. there isn't one that just goes on the passenger side. If you have 98 valve covers you can just use another Metco one, cause the 98 covers have the same holes as the oil fill cap on both covers.
Center bolt valve covers your screwed. And the Metco breathers are $50 a piece.:eek: Thats why i welded a 1 3/8" tube on each cover and used these $12 breathers.

Has anyone got a part for a breather that will pop in the back of the drivers side valvecover? I'd like to do awya with teh PCV on my car all together... if I can get a breather that will go in the hole on the stock vavelcover, and one of those breather oil caps, I'd be all over it.

All I'd have to do after that is gut the whole PCV off the car, plug the little lone int eh back and front of the passengers side valve cover, and plug the line going to the TB and the line to the intake..... or am I missing something?

I'm sure you could find something that works. You could also try what I suggested above.

http://www.knfilters.com/vent.htm

I'm not having the PCV issues that alot of people have, I have an AMW catch can installed in line, and so far it's been working fine. I did however just swap heads on my car, so with teh added power and compression, who knows. I'm just looking for anohter way to clean up the engine bay and get rid of some more junk... a small filter in teh drivers side head in teh back, and the metco breather cap would do the job nicely. I wonder if I could get a filter that has a threaded end on it and just drill out and tap that hole in that's in the back of the 01 valvecover. Anyone seen a filter that has a threaded end on it?

Another thing you could do is buy a second passenger cover, put a metco on that and bolt it on the driver side head.

That's a thought. Might have to look around for one.

The breather that I am using is the K&N breather that I bought for my AIR hose when I put my lid on. I have since !AIR and I flared the end of the filter so it would stay in the grommet better. I don't have room for a metco back there cause that's where my coils mount to the cowl, and the smaller K&N seems to be working fine