Breathe Suzy BREATH...part II

[Ldub]

Dubs, I would imagine that diamond plating would retain a LOT of heat from the engine bay and work against you with bringing in fresh, cool air. Am I mistaken? Maybe a carbon fiber lid would benefit you better? I just use the stock airbox for now as I have yet to find a decent cold air intake to mod that works well into the wheel well.

It's OK, the diamondplate is just a skin on top of the stock airbox. I keep my intake air cool through the use if two layers of 1/4" foil faced foam insulation on all heat exposed sides of the box.
If you look at this pic, you will see the green color, that's a combined thickness of 1/2"...



I know this works, because in same "day/road/time" testing against Kenny's stock configuration, my IAT was 6-8 deg cooler.
I've also "sleeved" the intake tube, & the space between the outer (c/f) wall & the straight through sleeve is filled with fiberglass batting.

So you are going Valvecover => Oil Catch => Breather? or back to your air intake?

Have you considered a sensor that tells you when the catch-can is full, so that an alarm can be triggered within the cabin? It would seem that when the catch-can is full of oil, the engine isn't.

Valve cover(s)->Oil Catch->vented through breathers in the airbox.
So yeah, what little oil fumes may be left, go to the intake charge.
If you look at the first pic, you'll se a small plastic tube on the outside of the catch tank, that will indicate the level of what's inside.
Every time I check the dipstick, (at EVERY fuel refill) I also check the level of the catch tank.
There is no more oil leaving the crank case than with the stock PCV configuration, just a lot less of it is going into the intake charge.

Hey Dub, Would it be better to mount it below the air intake filter so that you could ditch the two small filters and any potential oil outbursts don't saturate the air intake filter and make it harder for the engine to breath??

I'll have to keep an eye on that, initial testing shows no actual liquid making it to the air box. Since I run a K&N cone filter with a K&N foam pre filter, & the loca of the breathers is well behind the filtration surface, I am at the present time not too worried.

[Ldub]

I made this today, to replace the plastic PCV valve that I gutted & epoxied back together...



It's a combination of light fixture parts, & a couple of other fittings I found at the local smokers emporium......

Oh yeah, & PC-7 epoxy...

Can't have none of that metal stuph dropping down into the valve train...

[crotchrocket]

I made this today, to replace the plastic PCV valve that I gutted & epoxied back together...



It's a combination of light fixture parts, & a couple of other fittings I found at the local smokers emporium......

Oh yeah, & PC-7 epoxy...

Can't have none of that metal stuph dropping down into the valve train...

Good use of materials there!!!

Meet Ldub, now refered too as the 'Jolly Bodger'

[WormGod]

[Ldub]

That's funny as hell to me, since i used parts from a ball point pen to extend the input nipples on the catch tank....

[Ldub]

No more fumage' inside the cockpit...

No decrease in oil consumtion to speak of...

No oil ever accumulates in the catch can, even though the trip is all up hill from the catch can to the air box...
I do see residue inside the air box.

There is mysterious bad juju at work in our collective crankcases...

[Ascinder]

You're not foolin anyone, we all know you just wanted an excuse to throw down some more carbon fiber in your engine bay-all I have to say is thank god they don't make catch cans in diamond plate
But seriously, has your headache/oil fume sickness gone away? If so I'd consider it a success.


P.S-Just kidding. I'm a closet diamondplate whore myself