Oil catch can for boost.....is vacuum pull a must....?
You should only need a check valve if your WG tube is tied into your exhaust. If it's a dump pipe to atmosphere and you have it installed correctly there shouldn't be back pressure and the high moving games past the tube should pull a vacuum.
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You haven’t been around long enough or you’re not paying attention. There’s a whole industry built on “Top End” cleaning. And, it actually makes engines run better if they were dirty. Search “top end cleaning” and you’ll grow very old trying reading it all. Literally 100’s of members here over the years have cleaned their top ends and posted videos of it.
But most people have engines that slowly get dirty over many years and never notice. Those people THINK they have clean engines.
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Run the can in the rear of the car, problem solved.
People run turbos in the rear, imagine the extra cost to do that. What’s the extra cost to run more line, pretty much nothing.
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While it's not exactly intended for a vent, it's actually fairly common to run large (gallon to 2 gallon) vented burn tanks or puke tanks in the trunk area of boosted race cars. The idea is if there is a ring or piston failure, the boost pressure will force all, or most, of the engine oil out, and the intent of the rear mounted tank is to catch it vs going under the rear tires at speed and oiling down the track.
Well, the only negative I hear from anyone pertaining to using ONLY an oil breather can set up (no PCV), is “oil odors inside the car”.
Run the can in the rear of the car, problem solved.
People run turbos in the rear, imagine the extra cost to do that. What’s the extra cost to run more line, pretty much nothing.
Run the can in the rear of the car, problem solved.
People run turbos in the rear, imagine the extra cost to do that. What’s the extra cost to run more line, pretty much nothing.
While it's not exactly intended for a vent, it's actually fairly common to run large (gallon to 2 gallon) vented burn tanks or puke tanks in the trunk area of boosted race cars. The idea is if there is a ring or piston failure, the boost pressure will force all, or most, of the engine oil out, and the intent of the rear mounted tank is to catch it vs going under the rear tires at speed and oiling down the track.
I'm contemplating a coolant surge tank or mounting my coolant puke tank in the rear for this reason but its low on the to do list.
But now we're comparing full tilt, max effort race setups and street cars, no one with a 1,000hp streetcar is going to go through all that.
I'm contemplating a coolant surge tank or mounting my coolant puke tank in the rear for this reason but its low on the to do list.
I'm contemplating a coolant surge tank or mounting my coolant puke tank in the rear for this reason but its low on the to do list.
I'd bet once you price one out, a PCV system looks like a steal lol.
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this was quite popular back in the day and the idea of the check valve was to take advantage of the exhaust pulsing. iv never done it though.