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Breather caps good or bad?aluke000 04-16-2003, 10:25 AM I have seen oil breather caps available for cars for years. I've included an explanation of their purpose coppied form a companies website. "A breather filter relieves your engine of positive crankcase pressure and recycled carbon vapors from your engine, which cause loss of throttle response due to build-up on the throttle body. A breather helps resolve that problem, by venting the vapors into the atmosphere." I have a couple of questions. Is the loss of positive pressure in the crackcase a bad thing? Will venting instead of recycling unburned vapors throw off the air/fuel mixture that the computer is expecting? Will it also fail your vehicle emissions tests? I also assume your fuel economy would fall to as you will be using more fuel/air with less of the recycled vapor in the mix, right? Kiwi Te-V 05-11-2003, 12:06 AM I fitted one of these filters to my rocker cover just to purify the cold air theory .Honestly, you'd need some very precise equipment to measure a difference in fuel use as I've noticed no change.The throttle body has stayed clean too. I dont think your emmisions are tested from within the engine bay, are they?! If the slight drop in 'possitive' crank case pressure -due to these breathing filters-was a problem alot of race car engines would have self destructed as a result. vBulletin®, Copyright ©2009, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
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