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Old Oct 11, 2002 | 10:36 PM
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Cost me about $10 in parts and made out of PVC pipe.I just did it today so i'll know more later how its working.

Geocites don't link pics so goto my main site and its on the left.What do you think?

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Old Oct 14, 2002 | 02:10 AM
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Sorry so uninformed, but what exactly is that used for?
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Old Oct 14, 2002 | 02:41 AM
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by SSG--Z28:
<strong>Sorry so uninformed, but what exactly is that used for?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Its to help stop the oil consumption problems our cars have. I have the same thing that someone else came up with by using fuel filters.

slick98ta- Looks pretty good. Where is your PCV valve at? Do you have any more pics of it?

Good luck with it I hope it helps.

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Old Oct 14, 2002 | 08:25 AM
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A few questions:

What is the made made from?

Why don't both lines run from the top of the can?

How do you empty the can?

Has it worked? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" />
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Old Oct 14, 2002 | 01:48 PM
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">slick98ta- Looks pretty good. Where is your PCV valve at? Do you have any more pics of it?</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Its in the stock location where the 98's are,a little futer back along the valve cover.And I could take more pics,its not a problem.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Ragtop 99:
<strong>A few questions:

What is the made made from?

Why don't both lines run from the top of the can?

How do you empty the can?

Has it worked? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Its made from PVC pipe that was painted black.Its 2.5" i believe.Its a cap that threads on the inside of the pipe on top and threaded cap on the bottom.

I didn't put both lines on top simply because the way the cap has a square nuckle on top and no room,so its on the side.

I can empty it by taking off the threaded cap off the bottom,or i plan on putting a drain fitting on the bottom.I just did it like that for now cause it was fast fix and i was going to track.

Well I did the can 2 days ago then went straight to the track,it seems to work and i see no oil in the clear hose,but tomorrow i'm going to look behind the TB and check the can to be sure.After running the hell out of it at the track and if there's no oil in the TB i should be doing good,because before after a day of driving normal i was getting oil behind the TB.We'll i'll let you know.

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Old Oct 14, 2002 | 02:57 PM
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Looks good, although you may want to move the intake to catch can line up higher, because if that gets below the level of oil in the can it wont be pretty! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />
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Old Oct 14, 2002 | 08:07 PM
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I have no experiance with this catch can stuff other than understanding the concept of what it does, and on my car all I see where the catch can is in the pics above are a little plastic cylender thingy with wires coming off the top, they look like the wires that are hanging loose in the pics, what is that and is it needed?
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Old Oct 14, 2002 | 08:39 PM
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Nice catchcan!

Also, to the guy above me, that's your EGR valve and piping. Slick either has a 01-02 or has removed his EGR system.

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Old Oct 14, 2002 | 08:49 PM
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Oh, is it necessary to take off or modify for this mod or is it just some nice space to have afor a mount?
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Old Oct 15, 2002 | 02:04 AM
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by BensZ28:
<strong>Oh, is it necessary to take off or modify for this mod or is it just some nice space to have afor a mount?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yeah I have a 98' and removed the EGR when i put a LS6 intake on.So in your case you just need a spot to mount it.I chose that spot but it can go anywhere you choose.
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Old Oct 15, 2002 | 07:46 PM
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I looked in there and wow theres no space to mount something! Anyone have any ideas? And other than burning less oil and less chance of pinging what does this do for our cars? Anything performance wise?
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Old Oct 15, 2002 | 08:01 PM
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Thats awesome! Genius actually, Im gonna try to do something like that as well, I love your True Dual setup, is your car lowered? If so what springs did you lower it with? I wanna go with a true dual setup, but am worrieda bout ground clearance issues.
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Old Oct 15, 2002 | 10:35 PM
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hey slick98ta, was it easy to remove ur egr system, and what did u have to remove or modify.
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Old Oct 16, 2002 | 01:41 AM
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770boy......My car is not lowered

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Hicks 2KTA:
<strong>hey slick98ta, was it easy to remove ur egr system, and what did u have to remove or modify.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">yes it was easy,all of about 10 min.I put a ls6 intake without EGR and made a block off plate for the egr tube that goes to the header.Then had PCM tuning done and deleted the code that gets set off from having no egr.
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