Check this out before spending $$$ on a catch can!
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Originally Posted by FstBlkz28
Will this work on a ls1 vette PCV setup?
Launching!
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I Have been runing this PCV for years my buddy is a GM tec he turned me on to it. I did nothing for me i still run a AMW catch can and have to empty it every once and a while. It might have helped buy i really do not drive my car much so i can not give you a honest comparisn. But will will not hurt so give it a shot
Last edited by 00sscam; Oct 11, 2005 at 11:18 PM.
Originally Posted by BLUE99T/A
Just put mine in today. God I hope this works, I use about a quart per 1000 miles.
do all of you guys use synthetic? i read an article (can't remember which mag) that stated that "the use of synthetic oil could compound oil consumption". the previous owner of my car ran conventional oil in it since it was brand new, and had no oil consumption what so ever. just wondered if anyone was running conventional oil in there ls1 and still used oil.
my consumption was worse w/ mobil1 ... but mobil 1 is also a less viscous oil .... aka thinner. But with regular pennzoil i'd go thru a decent amount of oil inb/w changes. Now i run the german castrol and it has greatly reduced my oil consumption.
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does anyones oil dipstick ever get pushed out? 
Isn't a "PCV" system a positive crankcase ventilation system, using manifold vacuum to scavange blow-by and other stray vapors from the engine? If so, and with that smaller hole on the Fix valve, that would creat a higher velocity thru the valve. In a n oil rich environment, it would seem to suck more available oil. But I could be wrong, hell they (GM) are the experts. To me, the best set-up is the LS-6 valley cover set, but I will be willing to give the cheaper of the two the first shot, when I get my car finished. It is just huge piles of disassembly on the garage floor right now.
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I'll stick to my AMW. It will stop the oil, as long as its installed properly. I opened mine at 1000 miles after it was installed(by the guy that put my new motor in) and to my suprise it was clean as the day it was put in. I guess the hoses weren't installed right. My fault, I should of just done it myself.
I've had the AMW catch can on my car for over 2 years now. Let me just say this, after I switch to this new PCV, unless my catch can is 100% COMPLETELY bone dry at my next oil change. I'll be keeping the can on my car w/ the new valve. I've seen how much oil my car was/would have been sucking into my engine by what the can catches. So it'll take some very amazing results before I pull the can off my car.
Originally Posted by Vortech
With all that oil in the intake how do you go about cleaning it out without taking it off?