I was bored tonight and was thinking of a way to recirculate my HKS SSQ without buying an expensive piece of small pipe. Went out to the garage and found some PVC pipe. So i took the BOV off the car, and took the cover off the HKS. I found a piece of PVC pipe that was a hair to big to fit in that insert hole. So i cut a piece off, and went over to the grinder. Grinded it out multiple times to where it just barely fit through the hole. Keep in mind, if you do this, you just grind so much of the PVC. Don't grind the whole tube you're working with. So i grinded maybe from 3 inches from one side of the pipe and the let rest of the pipe be. I then found another piece of PVC pipe that my original piece would fit inside of. You want it to be a snug fit. So after the grinding was all said and done, i chopped off the section that I didn't need. So part of the pipe was original size and about 3 inches were shaved. I got the other piece of PVC, and cut a very small section out. Less than 1 inch. I got some PVC glue and put it around the bigger piece (the piece that covers the end of the smaller pipe). After it dried i stuck it in the 'insert' hole of the HKS cover. It was an extremely snug fit getting it in there with the bigger piece of PVC. If you have a HKS and have examined it while it was apart, you'll know why I used a 'ring' (the bigger PVC piece). Now it's not as perfect as the kit you'd buy, but it does the same exact thing and works extremely well and it's not like you're going to see it, so who cares if it scratched up, etc. Here are the pics i took of it.
I was just tired of getting somewhat shitty gas mileage and running rich, and didn't feel like paying anywhere from $15 - $30 for a damn tube I could make myself. Sorry if the instructions are a bit confusing, but if you have a HKS and wanna do this, they'll help.
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03-02-2005, 01:26 AM
Home-made recirc kit!
