Cheap Oil Catch Can Tutorial

[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

[gnegroni]

Watching...well reading, can't pictures at work, but I'll be home soon.

[no_escape]

watching as well.

[panic]

Very nice.
I hate to endorse sending money to Beijing - but I would have to pay what Moroso etc. would charge for that!

Also serves another purpose. I assume that the inlet (from the cover) is at the top but ends in a pipe inside that goes almost to the bottom? And the exit (to the CAI) is all the way at the top?
The height is for a reason (not just to hold 750 ml), it's to allow oil droplets and vapor to "fall out" of the air, so less enters the intake manifold. :drinking:

[Midias]

Very nice.
I hate to endorse sending money to Beijing - but I would have to pay what Moroso etc. would charge for that!

Also serves another purpose. I assume that the inlet (from the cover) is at the top but ends in a pipe inside that goes almost to the bottom? And the exit (to the CAI) is all the way at the top?
The height is for a reason (not just to hold 750 ml), it's to allow oil droplets and vapor to "fall out" of the air, so less enters the intake manifold.

Sorry to take so long to answer this I just did not have time to take mine apart and look. My friend just got the same one so I took a look inside. No pipes so the drops would not have as much of a chance to fall out. But I still think it does a better job than just a straight hose going back into the intake. Either way it was a fun cheap experiment and I have yet to have any issues with it. When It gets warm out I will take it off and take some pics of the inside so people and I can see what it collected if anything.

[gnegroni]

Excellent!

[Jakecallun20]

yep. I installed mine the same way, just mounted in a different spot since I lack the cpe.

[Dawgz]

Midias, any pics of how its been working?

[stringbean]

noticed this was old but wondering if you got anything with it?

[pwizzle]

I know that this thread is hella old but I was just wondering how much oil was captured. I'm thinking about adding a catch can sometime in the near future and wanted to see how much I could possibly pick up.