turboglenn
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- Nov 5, 2007
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RIpley,
West Virginia
Well, I wanted to upgrade my VC breather line from the stock on to -8, but having dealt with issues with baffles before i needed to come up with a way to be able to get all shavings out and not have to touch the baffles to remove or replace them
The catch can i used is an old one i had on already and i just put a -8 fitting on the side of it and opened the top and made a filter mount instead of running it as a true closed loop system (like a catch can in the PCV is how i had it before)
here's some pics..
what i did was to mill the VC stock fitting open like a channel, then also milled the -8 fitting half way through it lengthwise (so the top of it now is the top of the VC, and the bottom was open) by milling a large channel in the VC it's self i was able to remove ALL the shavings with q-tips and a small brush, then I welded up the half moon cut fitting which has more area available than it did to begin with but it still limited to the hole in the threaded fitting part
here's some pics, I hope what i did makes sense cause i didnt' take any pics while doing it (i never keep the droid on me welding, i've ruined a few phones with high freq. TIG)
I know the can is nothing special, and the main reason i welded instead of just threading the fitting to the can was because i had cut it out of a can i maade back when i first got my TIG and was learning my cast a little better (looked like crap but i cleaned it up into a usable fitting again, i'm the recycling king
)
The only thing that really matters to me is it fits in the bay, doesn't look like crap, and breathes out case pressure without spewing oil on my clean engine bay
win-win-win IMO
Once i clean and polish the VC and can again it should all look really good. for now i have a stock VC on my car with the red letter DOHC from a 1g(restarted the sand and polish on this one a while back)
The catch can i used is an old one i had on already and i just put a -8 fitting on the side of it and opened the top and made a filter mount instead of running it as a true closed loop system (like a catch can in the PCV is how i had it before)
here's some pics..
what i did was to mill the VC stock fitting open like a channel, then also milled the -8 fitting half way through it lengthwise (so the top of it now is the top of the VC, and the bottom was open) by milling a large channel in the VC it's self i was able to remove ALL the shavings with q-tips and a small brush, then I welded up the half moon cut fitting which has more area available than it did to begin with but it still limited to the hole in the threaded fitting part
here's some pics, I hope what i did makes sense cause i didnt' take any pics while doing it (i never keep the droid on me welding, i've ruined a few phones with high freq. TIG)
I know the can is nothing special, and the main reason i welded instead of just threading the fitting to the can was because i had cut it out of a can i maade back when i first got my TIG and was learning my cast a little better (looked like crap but i cleaned it up into a usable fitting again, i'm the recycling king
)The only thing that really matters to me is it fits in the bay, doesn't look like crap, and breathes out case pressure without spewing oil on my clean engine bay
win-win-win IMOOnce i clean and polish the VC and can again it should all look really good. for now i have a stock VC on my car with the red letter DOHC from a 1g(restarted the sand and polish on this one a while back)
