Homemade Catch Can
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OK, I've read this thing twice and must just be retarded b/c I can't figure this out. I bought everything and got ready to install it then read that for boosted app some people were hooking it to a vacuum. For clarification, me being boosted, how should I hook up the pass side one? Do I just block off the nipple to the plenum?
As for the driver side, if air is being sucked IN through there, why bother with a breather? Why not just leave it hooked to the intake? Please excuse my ignorance.
As for the driver side, if air is being sucked IN through there, why bother with a breather? Why not just leave it hooked to the intake? Please excuse my ignorance.
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Originally Posted by gothchick
Was bored today... Fabbed up a bracket and switched to stainless hose with anodized fittings. I've been running this catchcan with stainless mesh for about a year. Totally happy with it. I cracked open my plenum last weekend just to see how well this catchcan has worked over the last year, and it was spotless. :-)
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Great minds must think alike... Lol. I blacked them out about a week ago. :-)
Escobar: I got the fittings from Custom Corvette Accessories
http://www.customcorvetteaccessories...lcatchcan.html
Escobar: I got the fittings from Custom Corvette Accessories
http://www.customcorvetteaccessories...lcatchcan.html
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Originally Posted by gsxrjohn
OK, I've read this thing twice and must just be retarded b/c I can't figure this out. I bought everything and got ready to install it then read that for boosted app some people were hooking it to a vacuum. For clarification, me being boosted, how should I hook up the pass side one? Do I just block off the nipple to the plenum?
As for the driver side, if air is being sucked IN through there, why bother with a breather? Why not just leave it hooked to the intake? Please excuse my ignorance.
As for the driver side, if air is being sucked IN through there, why bother with a breather? Why not just leave it hooked to the intake? Please excuse my ignorance.
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I just followed and installed this homemade catch can and it works. I did some spirited driving and oil was pooled at the bottom of the catch can that surely would of made it to my plenum. Great thread / DIY.. I wish i did this mod a long time ago.
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Originally Posted by gsxrjohn
OK, I've read this thing twice and must just be retarded b/c I can't figure this out. I bought everything and got ready to install it then read that for boosted app some people were hooking it to a vacuum. For clarification, me being boosted, how should I hook up the pass side one? Do I just block off the nipple to the plenum?
The PCV is a one way valve. However, it is possible to damage it under boost. Better safe than buying new PCV's every several thousand miles.
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Originally Posted by gsxrjohn
Where do you attach it on the intake? Did you have a tab welded on the pass intake?
Drill a hole somewhere on the intake between the filter and the turbo. Tap it, then screw in a brass barb.
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The JWT kit comes with an intake nipple. The problem with i8acobra's plumbing instruction is that the driver's side is usually plumbed to the intake AND there is no suction at all during idle (not much blowby either so maybe ok). I plumbed both the intake manifold and the intake stream to the output of the catch can (using a check valve at both orifices so air only enters the plenum and intake respectively). That way there is suction at idle and under boost. I left the driver's side open to air with a small breather filter with the hope that it would always be sucking air in (and blow by would not increase to the point it would release oil vapor to the engine bay).
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So has anyone put Kobalt or Black&Decker in their sig for their mods list?
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here is mine, has been done for a while but I snapped a few shots while cleaning my filter.
where did you get that bracket at? i've looked everywhere and no luck
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Originally Posted by Z04
you can call it the LCC (or Lowes Catch Can) or the HDCC (Home Depot Catch Can), depending on where you bought the parts
where did you get that bracket at? i've looked everywhere and no luck
where did you get that bracket at? i've looked everywhere and no luck
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I've got a question, somewhat related. On the driver side, there is a tube that goes into the intake and into the engine. Someone made a diy to make a breather filter for that side instead of putting a catch can there, and I can't find it for jack! I even posted in it but I can't find it when i search for my name. Anyone happen to have it by chance? I think you posted in it also gothchick, you were arguing with some guy about a/f ratios not being off being. Thanks!
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Originally Posted by mowgli29
^^ hows that working out? your max catching as much oil as the Z guys?
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Originally Posted by 3kgtslflip
I've got a question, somewhat related. On the driver side, there is a tube that goes into the intake and into the engine. Someone made a diy to make a breather filter for that side instead of putting a catch can there, and I can't find it for jack! I even posted in it but I can't find it when i search for my name. Anyone happen to have it by chance? I think you posted in it also gothchick, you were arguing with some guy about a/f ratios not being off being. Thanks!
way too simple. just take the hose off of the intake tube, and stick one of those small filters you find at autozone/pepboys/etc on there. then move back to the intake tube and use something to close off the spot where the tube use to be. then you are done.
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...I recently sold a 'O1 Maxima in order to get my "Z"; it had, approx., 72k on her, & I had never even heard about catch cans, until I joined "my350z.com". She never developed a miss or anything of the sort. What should I gather from this? She had a 3.OL engine, & gave me great service for about 5 yrs. Is it the 3.5L engine that suffers from the oil condensation thingy? Help, guys! I'm concerned about this issue. Thanks.
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Originally Posted by j.arnaldo
...I recently sold a 'O1 Maxima in order to get my "Z"; it had, approx., 72k on her, & I had never even heard about catch cans, until I joined "my350z.com". She never developed a miss or anything of the sort. What should I gather from this? She had a 3.OL engine, & gave me great service for about 5 yrs. Is it the 3.5L engine that suffers from the oil condensation thingy? Help, guys! I'm concerned about this issue. Thanks.