Oil catch can installed less than $20

[Midias]

After the newest oil catch can thread I became curious about how much crap I might collect on a 160K mile engine. So I picked up this oil catch can on ebay for only $15.


EBAY LINK


First off here is the kit as delivered. Quality seems fine I am sure it was made in china but it should work just fine.




To make it work for the solara you only need is 4 extra hose clamps a length of 3/4 in hose a little smaller than the stock hose about 2 or 3 inches long and a 3/8 adapter. Use the 3/8 adapter on the blue hose and 3/4 hose to go to the valve cover



Then I mounted the tank to the CPE heat shield





Then I used this hose size adapter it came with for my CPE intake





Finally I just cut the hoses to length and it was all done

[lilm]

nice write up

[ptballer]

nice write up

x2

[funboy102]

Ok, this might be a dumb question, but I don't know about this particular part of the engine. But which way does air flow in this schematic? Does air come from the intake, into the oil catch can, and then into the engine? Or does dirty air come out of the engine, into the oil catch can, then into the intake pipe?

I'm thinking the latter?

[Midias]

crap goes from the engine to the oil catch can then clean air goes to the intake or at least that is the plan.

[SleeperSolara]

Nice man.

[funboy102]

so If i had a breather filter on there, the dirty air would just get collected by the filter before going into my engine bay area then?

[Midias]

^^ In general breather filters are a bad idea because the do not adequately vent the gasses in the cylinder head like a vacuum system does. There is a reason toyota and every other company uses the manifold vacuum to draw those gasses out.

[Jakecallun20]

Forgive me, But I'm a little slow on the uptake of this idea. Does the oil catch can not actually hold oil? or is it just another way of filtering out air from the valve train? I really have no idea what an oil catch can does or what it can help improve.

EDIT: I just did a quick bit of research and I somewhat realize what it does, Takes the oil vapors from the line running from the valve cover outlet to the intake system, thus taking it out of the air which would go into the intake cycle and cause possible detonation. Now I have a few questions, I understand that it actually catches oil from the engine, well does this oil need to be poured back into the engine or thrown out when you change the oil? Could this process possibly catch enough to starve the motor of oil? I use AMSoil and I don't change my oil every 3-5k like you conventional/blend guys. So I'm curious to find these answers as I'll do whatever I can to get as much life out of my car's engine as possible.

[Akfahad]

that CPE shield is perfect for it!!

[Midias]

Forgive me, But I'm a little slow on the uptake of this idea. Does the oil catch can not actually hold oil? or is it just another way of filtering out air from the valve train? I really have no idea what an oil catch can does or what it can help improve.

EDIT: I just did a quick bit of research and I somewhat realize what it does, Takes the oil vapors from the line running from the valve cover outlet to the intake system, thus taking it out of the air which would go into the intake cycle and cause possible detonation. Now I have a few questions, I understand that it actually catches oil from the engine, well does this oil need to be poured back into the engine or thrown out when you change the oil? Could this process possibly catch enough to starve the motor of oil? I use AMSoil and I don't change my oil every 3-5k like you conventional/blend guys. So I'm curious to find these answers as I'll do whatever I can to get as much life out of my car's engine as possible.

I don't think enough oil comes out to starve the engine and I doubt it even needs to be emptied all that often. I think if that much oil was going into it you would already be having serious engine problems. The big reason I installed it was just curiosity to see what was coming out of my 160k mile engine. I figured for less than 20 dollars I could check the amount of oil coming out and filter the gases going into my intake manifold and keep that clean so why not.

[Jakecallun20]

I think ima get the same kit, but does it have a drain plug? and does the oil that is caught inside need to be funelled back into the motor after a few weeks?...sorry for all the questions.

-Jake

[Midias]

Yes it has a drain on the bottom and I doubt you would ever have to dump it back in considering the oil that usually comes out is burned in the cylinders and sent out of the exhaust pipe. Also after a few weeks I doubt there would even be a teaspoon in the can.

[Jakecallun20]

Alrighty then, Thx for answering my questions. I think I'm going to hook one of these guys up, seeing as I'm not far behind you in mileage at 147k.

[SleeperSolara]

that CPE shield is perfect for it!!

I know.