Budget catch can?
Or you can be creative and make a better\cheaper version. Besides driving a raw high horse-powered car, engineering\ improving the way my car functions is the most fun.
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I'm not using wooden head bolts here...it's a damn catch can. If it doesn't work it will take all of 30 seconds to pull it off and go back to factory.
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That's a great idea... stealthy too.
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UPDATE: ~300 mile round trip to the track and a day of racing, checked it the next day and I had about half a teaspoon of oil in the bottom of the cap.
Now that I know it works, I will be painting it black and installing it near the firewall behind the drivers side head. Out of sight and out of mind for the most part and less oil getting in my intake.
Now that I know it works, I will be painting it black and installing it near the firewall behind the drivers side head. Out of sight and out of mind for the most part and less oil getting in my intake.
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I've used the $20 one from Ebay (this is old pic, I've since removed the clear plastic tube and capped the holes so it won't look ricey) and mounted on head using a fence pole part from home depot - turned out okay. It works great, I empty it about once a month
UPDATE: ~300 mile round trip to the track and a day of racing, checked it the next day and I had about half a teaspoon of oil in the bottom of the cap.
Now that I know it works, I will be painting it black and installing it near the firewall behind the drivers side head. Out of sight and out of mind for the most part and less oil getting in my intake.
Now that I know it works, I will be painting it black and installing it near the firewall behind the drivers side head. Out of sight and out of mind for the most part and less oil getting in my intake.
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The intake hasn't been removed and cleaned since it went on several years ago. I had it off for the head/cam swap but was too busy chasing my tail on every other little thing to worry about it. Had a light coat of oil, just enough to make everything glossy. I blew it out with an air hose and stuck it back on.
The car used 1 qt every 2500 miles or so. I consider that pretty good since if I'm driving the car, it is getting run hard fairly often.
The car does smell less like burning oil on heavy decel already. Should only get better as it continues to dry out more.
I might eventually get one of the ebay ones and modify it to remove the site tube and add some filter media like my current steel wool inside. Really didn't want to spend any more than I had to until I could test to see if it was even worthwhile.
I didn't even cut my hose to fit this one, just connected it to the hose that runs to the intake and added another piece I had laying around to the other side.
The car used 1 qt every 2500 miles or so. I consider that pretty good since if I'm driving the car, it is getting run hard fairly often.
The car does smell less like burning oil on heavy decel already. Should only get better as it continues to dry out more.
I might eventually get one of the ebay ones and modify it to remove the site tube and add some filter media like my current steel wool inside. Really didn't want to spend any more than I had to until I could test to see if it was even worthwhile.
I didn't even cut my hose to fit this one, just connected it to the hose that runs to the intake and added another piece I had laying around to the other side.
