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Homemade oil catch can and new air filter


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MetroManiac
07-23-2006, 01:19 AM
Well, I guess my crankcase was creating some incredible pressure and causing a very embarassing, giant cloud of smoke at 60 mph and upwards, so I bypassed the PCV valve and vented the crankcase to a home made oil catch can. Now all my problems are solved. The car was running so good despite the low compression readings (135, 160, 160 in respective cylinders 1,2,and 3) so I thought I'd hold off on doing a JDM swap. I made an oil catch can to vent the crankcase using a water filter assembly I bought from Lowe's, 3 feet of 3/4" fuel hose, and two 3/4" barbed fittings, and an 8" corner bracket. I painted the white filter housing silver to look better in the engine compartment and secured it using the angle bracket to one of the strut nuts. Please see pics below. I also installed a really cool Edelbrock air cleaner assembly after reading about it on Teamswift.net. I had to cut a piece of aluminum to allow the 5 1/8" air cleaner base to fit over the 4 and some change inch throttle body. The car actually seems to be a lot peppier and sounds a lot meaner. I hope this set up gives me even better fuel economy.

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