Made this; But, Catch can or coolant overflow???

[turboglenn]

Well, i was bored tonight and made this ( took a late nap today ) anyway, the only thing left to do is turn the "cap" to match the OD of the rest of the unit. But noe i'm trying to figure out if i want to use it for the catch can for my PCV setup (already have several though and one 'm using for the vent line as well)

I love the way it came out (for being done at 4am especially )

Anyway... YOu've probably all seen my "box" type catch cans..should i use 2 of those for the venting and PCV and use this as the coolant overflow, or just make this another catch can for the PCV system ( i'mhaving 2 cans...one as the "vent" that will draw suction from the filter to tubo tube, then the one i am still working on has a functional PCV inside -6 line and all i need to do is come up with the vacum source for it and put a male -6 fitting on whatever can i'm going to use... I'm using push to lock for all the vacume related connections, and -AN stuff on the actual oil passage tubes and everywhere else i can.. I love AN fittings and SS braided hose

So tell me what you think...also it will be pollished before it's installed on the car... it's ust the way i am with aluminum (but i'm not doing another valve cover ) The VC will be painted or powder coated and then have the "mitsubishi" and "DOHC" polished up as well, or at least sanded to make it shiny like they come factory

HEre's afew pics...also there's one showing the current can to be used as th vent with the new can next to it for comparison.it will hook to the -6 that's next to the -8 for the vent and will become the PCV

Here's a pic with a -6 fitting and a 1/8npt push-to-lock fitting like used on pneumatis and alky injection systems... the push to lock will go to the manifold for the vacume source. Then the -6 line will go to the VC with a PCV valve in it so it functions correctly.

By not having any "open vents" I'm hoping to keep enough negative pressure in the cans to eliminate any excess crank pressure. Btu ihaven't blown any oil on the new motor anyway, but i want to keep it thatway

BUT...there's stil the thoughts of making it the coolant catch

confused is my second middle name

 

[VETTE_50_TH]

When are you going to start marketing this shit.

James

 

[turboglenn]

^ Locally I already do, but i keep quiet on here until things get up enough to start paying to be a vendor. I do how ever like to come here, get opinions, feedback, etc... I've also got a webpage in the works and just yesterday got an investor/partner who wishes to fund US a full on shop and provide a CNC mill setup and some other "neded" machines that i just don't hve, all of this within a year . In exchange for me teaching him all my knowleddge of fab and cars and he will be part owner and an employee... plus he's one of my best frieds who by unfortunate circumstance, lost his father but inherited a good bit of money and wants to build bikes and cars for aliving...he's got a great imagination for originla themes! ) I knwoi friends and business usually dont' work, but we've had joint ventures before and he's always erager to learn, listena dn speak his mind when he sees an issue ( he will make a great partner (not even worried about tehinvestment, but it's one hell of a plus! )


This coolant overflow was just a test/prototype, and after throwing a shine on it and having it on and functioning i stopped at the porsche place i work at sometimes and imediately got one order from a customer of theirs that was in the shop (which still is mine in a sense because i work for them on an "as needed basis") Then i had them order 4 more for stock (and 4 catch cans like the one on the firewall)...guess round pieces apeal to people ) And because they've been looking for such an item at less than 125 bucks, not to mention i told them i will build to suit specs for volume, height, width,everything i think i've got a solid work load from them. They did however change the mounting design towork on porche tabs that are in a good place to mount such a resevior. .. I"M broke from winter being dead, so i REALLY needed that.

As for an update on the parts.. I ended up using the first can as the coolant overflow (there's even the tube inside the coolannt and catch cans just like "big name" models so it can siphon back into the coolant system whe cooling. I've also adde this to the new line of catch cans so that there's less chance of oil vapor flying right over to the side and back into the intake manifold.

I was very pround of the polish job (learned afew things lately) and i got a damn near mirror finish on the overflow can, mounted it and then proceded to make a round, but smaller and remote catch can for the PCV system seprate from the crank vent system ( PCV is on firewall..pics are in this thread) and then I took my existing catch can, sealed it, added some push-to-lock fittings and now weher i'm under boost or vacum i have a sealed system that should evactuate all pressure from the crank case (no oil has spewed yet on the catch cans)

It's made me feel really good to pop the hood and have people who dirve porsches, lotus's and otehr high end cars going "ooh and aaw" about the parts i've made asking what brand it is, how it works and where to get one... not to mention i love hearing "it's really starting to look like a pure race car under the hood from other people i know (althouhg i feel i'm a long way from there still )

I do all kinds of work, and now that we have a fab section (maybe this shoudl have been there) I will start posting all kinds of stuff I build. Everything from mini-bikes, shifter carts with 600+cc streetbike motors, custom air shift setups on bikes and auto cars, handrails just about anything a man can make with metal I just love working with metal, it's the one love of mine that comes in above tuning cars.


Mods./.. Please dont take this as a sale... I did not try to sell, offer prices, order info or anythignof that nature as 'm repecting the rule of becoming a supporting vendor. IT's just that lot of my stuff isn't pure DSM, it's more custom order per application so i am just tossing thigns out to see what people think and not once d i mention "if you like, ill sell you one" I hope i'm in the guidelines, please let me know if i'm not as i DO plan on becoming a vendor in the next year when my financial backing comes in and the name changes to G & T's Wicked Toys.. we plan on specializing in anything that's just plain rediculous as far as power to weight ratio, top speed etc. , Thinking out of the box is a saying i hate to use, but that will be a main premise in the new business... And WE will be doing eveything from radcing mowers, dirtbikes, shifter kart fab, cars (both import, domestic, new and old, FI conversions EVERYTHING, and about any other wild toy you can think of when you come in and say.. i want a GSX-r 1k motor in this trycycle frame Out answer is.. "Ok, we'll get started, but what are your goals, how much you want to spend and do you have a deadline?"

NOw... onto the pics... the first one is an airtank for a GSXR 1000 airshift setup i built a customer (well still building it, getting the final touches on air solenoid placement since it's a stree driven bike) and the last pic is the transistor mount i made to go with the aluminum theme on my car. The ones in the middle are of the coolant overflow (posted earlier in a raw form, it's now polsiched and sealed with o-rings, the fluid can only escape through the "vent tube/escape tube whatever it's called) And there some of the my old-style square valve cover vents that's now improved with a tube on the inlet that extends 3/4 to the bottm and gets vacume from the turbo intake pipe. And the new PCV catch can that is the round on on the firewall. There's some kinda blurry shots showing how i changed the intake to ussh-to-lock fittings mainly becasue I LOVE Them!!!!!! If i had it my way, every aluminum hole would be heli-coiled and every vacume hose would be push to lock... no more clamps! I'd like to see heater and coolant hoses push-to-lock too (even found them in my parker catalogue )

There's just something about welding, cutting, milling and posliching aluminum that really gets me going... I was fabbing some stuff last night and the next thin i know it's daylight the next day ( and i don't do coek, meth drugs..etc) I drink and take my doc prescribed meds but the love of metal workign will keep me on a natural high for along time

 

[VETTE_50_TH]

Nice pics Glenn. You've got a pm.

James

 

[tsiboosted]

Very nice Glenn. In the future I may try and hit you up for a coolant overflow tank. Great job.

 

[sickgsx-316]

Wow. Nice work. Please do post when u get a website going and become a vendor here, if you made a ss kit with the earls fittings for pcv, overflow, and anything else I could run in stainless I would buy it in a heartbeat. I'm too lazy to cut and measure and would pay to have things pre cut and measured in a neat little for the convenience of it.