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Blow by is contaminants blowing by the piston oil rings into the crank case, eg fuel and carbon etc. My catch can like almost every other catch can on this forum has only ever caught oil, that looked clean enough to be used again, i have kept all of my "caught" oil and it still looks perfectly fine there isn't any form of discolouration not even on the top where water/fuel would sit. I do not have excessive crank case pressure the car is stock, stock boost etc etc nothing has been modified yet. There are several changes i will be implementing once i have more engine bay room after i complete my intended mods in the next few weeks. I plan on running 2 catch can's, longer lines, better mounting locations, additional wire mesh in both catch cans in the required areas like i posted previously in this thread and also wire mesh in the bottom of the can so the oil has something to stick to. I plan to keep working/modifying this system until i have zero or near enough to zero oil going into my intake. |
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If you add multiple catch cans and more filtration in the PCV hose loop could it get too restrictive? What happens if you add too much restriction in that loop?
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I would urge you to try the RX Catch can (Google them for the web site). I have them on my two Camaros (SS and a ZL1) and my 2014 Stingray. When they replaced my ZL1 Blower for the recall it was clean with no oil in it.
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Here are the pics of the opened up LS9 supercharger.
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Sorry but my phone will only one pic at a time.
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do you have a close up of the intake ports or anything?
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Nope, it's back on the car now. There was nothing to take a pic of. They were dry.
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I empty my elite can about every 500 miles and it is half full, which seems like a lot. I drove 700 miles in one day before, all highway, and it was nearly full. Can is mounted by intake so the hoses are longer. So when people have 1000 miles and 1/16" I'd think they get a lot that makes it through, or their can is more restrictive preventing the vapor from freely flowing. I scheduled a 2 week reminder on my calendar just to check the damn thing
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There is a vent from the oil tank on the clean air side. But on the dirty side(where you'd put the can) it has the same little loop hose from the intake valley cover to the snout as the ZL1.
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Sorry to resurrect an old thread. I also don't have a ZL1 but a 1LE and a RX Catch can instead of a Elite catch can. However, I had to take the intake manifold off some time ago at around 15K miles and I have run the catch can and the 1LE pvc oil separate kit on the clean side since day 1 and there was a descent amount of oil in there. I don't think any of these catch cans are as effective as they advertise. I think I am just going to vent to atmosphere. I have had good luck doing that on other vehicles. Yes, it is installed properly.
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