Girly Catch Can Mounted
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Both the cc vent and the pcv vent are going to the can now until I get a good pcv valve. Stupid simple build - one pvc union, two pvc plugs, three brass right angles and some plastic tube that expoxied on for the filter. The bracket is some aluminum anchored under the AC line bracket with some hose clamp tank mounts riveted to it.
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Works is right - but you lose the ability to scavenge those gases/vapors under vacuum. For a turbo car that doesn't see a lot of boost, mostly traffic driven, I think it's important to keep that part of the system for that reason.
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Yeah, I really want to do the catch can thing. I would like to be able to suck it all dry with the manifold, on the other hand, my stock-location feed right now has so much oil pouring into the turbo that I thought I'd blown a bearing. :-)
I was planning on digging up that other thread from a couple months ago to come up with a good layout.
I was planning on digging up that other thread from a couple months ago to come up with a good layout.
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One day when rob finishes his setup it will be the most kick areseseest one around. 1x pcv, 2x oversized out = ftw.
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He fixed the problem with his dipstick blowing out.
Odds are it is a leaking pcv valve if you've got blow-by. If it's not, then what? rings? and most here will probably just run their stock bottom ends until the MUST rebuild them.
I actually did that when the can was over on the other side. Made a Y junction pipe to share the oil drain. I've got to build another oil pan so I'm just build in another bung for that purpose.
I've yet to see it, but word is under very harsh conditions (track events) the captured oil gets heavily contaminated with water, creating an oily froth. So that might be a reason not to dump it back in.
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I actually did that when the can was over on the other side. Made a Y junction pipe to share the oil drain. I've got to build another oil pan so I'm just build in another bung for that purpose.
I've yet to see it, but word is under very harsh conditions (track events) the captured oil gets heavily contaminated with water, creating an oily froth. So that might be a reason not to dump it back in.
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I was just doing some washing up and thinking about why I bother even trying to post sensible things into these threads and remembered something which I just know you will find very interesting.
Remember this :
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Dip stick was 4 inches too high after a lap. The hose from the end of rocker went straight down and out the bottom with no bottle/restriction at all. NO turbo. ie its marginal in stock form when thrashed hard. Of course that must have been caused by magic boost dust leaking past the pcv valve right...
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Dip stick was 4 inches too high after a lap. The hose from the end of rocker went straight down and out the bottom with no bottle/restriction at all. NO turbo. ie its marginal in stock form when thrashed hard. Of course that must have been caused by magic boost dust leaking past the pcv valve right...
;-)
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no, the problem was there were rockers in an mx6 ![wink](https://www.miataturbo.net/images/smilies/wink.gif)
I think the real problem was that the vent hole is about 1/8" - hard to blow through, so I'm sure it's equally difficult to vent blow-by thru
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I think the real problem was that the vent hole is about 1/8" - hard to blow through, so I'm sure it's equally difficult to vent blow-by thru