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Now let me clarify this is not attacking you as only you and the other party your talking to know the truth. And, this is such an inexpensive mod to do correctly, why would anyone want to take the chance and not protect their investment the best way possible?
I would argue with all the years of doing oil analysis that your mistaken on this, and there is white paper after white paper on this from engineers and engine builders doing the oil analysis's as well (I would go out on a limb and suspect someone is feeding you this inaccurate info and you are just repeating what they are telling you so not attacking you, your source is BS'ing).
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No offense taken. I am just looking to have a discussion about this. You have invested a lot of time into this and you are sharing your technical knowledge and with me being curious by nature I am taking the opportunity to pick your brain and try to understand.
The person BS'ing me is well me. These are my own oil analysis results although on a different engine than a V8.
Like I have said before I am curious by nature and like to tinker with engines. However, I am someone that needs measurable results to prove something is correct or not.
For example, K&N oiled filters compared to paper filters. There have been several experiments and large debates that more flow = less filtration = more dirty air = more wear. There have been many articles and results published that K&N filters do not filter as well as paper and therefore can lead to more rapid wear on the engine.
Since I run a K&N filter I obviously was concerned. I figured if their theory was correct, then on the oil analysis poor filtration would show up as silicon content. I have done oil analysis several times and never has silicon been high with a K&N filter so I continue to use it. My reasoning is if it was true, then why wouldn't it show up in a UOA report?
The same is true for an open breather. I understand the importance of purging the cases and I have seen the results of poor breathing and the sludge and water that has built up in the cases.
At the same time I run an open breather into essentially what you call a beer can catch can. Since the catch can is not effective like a RX can I chose not to connect it back into the intake and ingest oil. However, again I have never seen anything show up on the oil analysis that would indicate this is a problem. Maybe because my setup has a draft tube at the bottom of the can and is in the slip stream?
My only question was if my approach was not working, then shouldn't it show up in UOA? I don't run a RX catch can in that application because you don't make one
