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Originally Posted by Nutbutt
Looks like a solid product ! The Mighty Mouse has its check valves mounted right on the can and could do a dual vacuum outlet. The problem with using the separate check valves is that having them situated away from the can oil will start to build up on the valve and will need to be cleaned every so often. I don't know of any can that cleans the oil vapor completely (sorry all the can makers). Having the check valves integrated does not have this problem if they good quality metal valves.
I am interested on how your old setup may have caused a hydro lock ?
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Well my engine did hydrolock, or tried to at least. It happened at 7000rpm right as I was going through the traps. At that rpm there was no locking, it just exploded the rod. I probably wouldn't have known if it wasn't for all the other 5 rods being bent. 4 very slightly and 1 bent pretty bad. There's no doubt the pistons tried to compress a liquid, it's the only way those rods could have gotten bent. My intercooler was full of oil up to the couplers(and oil in my charge pipe and intake), my guess is it slowly accumulated from the oil going into my turbo inlet filter from the MightyMouse oil cap adapter, until there was enough that got sucked in in a large amount. Crankcase pressure pushed oil out of the oil cap, I know it did beause when I would put the breather there with no valve in it, it would get a lot of oil mist all around that little oil cap breather. Well the MightyMouse oil cap adapter is just straight through and any oil that went through there went through the turbo and would wind up in the intercooler.
The only other explanation would be if my turbo seal was leaking but I don't think it was. These are garret turbos and only have 5k miles on them. Or if the scavenge pump went out on that last run but I don't see that either because there was no smoke coming out the exhaust before it happened.
These aren't proven facts, just what I feel happened after seeing everything and thinking about it a lot. Here are pics of my #6 rod that was bent pretty bad and the MightyMouse oil cap adapter that is straight through(unlike the elite clean side oil separator that has material inside to form the vapors into drips that go back into the crankcase).
I'm not saying the catch can ruined my motor, it's a nice looking can and well built. Although I will say the MightyMouse can never caught very much oil for me, definitely less than the rx dual valve can that came with my turbo kit I was running before it.