Im doing another v8 swap on one of my 7's, I was wondering if the charcoal canister is needed for the brakes or anything, I know its needed to vent exhaust fumes, is there anything Im over looking before I chuck it?

 

no, you can toss it. it's ugly anyways.

 

OMG!!!!! I think people are blind and/or illiterate not to see this SAME FREAKING THING ASKED YESTERDAY!!!!!!

MY GOD....SEARCH DAMNIT!!!!!

https://www.rx7club.com/2nd-generation-specific-1986-1992-17/charcoal-canister-410152/

Here it is since you are too lazy to search.

 

This is very bad advice. Without the canister, where do you vent your fuel tank SAFELY?

Leave the canister. If you find it ugly, chrome or paint it, or make a nice cover. It's not hard to plumb it into your engine as all you need is a vacuum source and check valve. All this is coverd in the Factory Service and Haynes manual.

 

o snap. i just capped mine steel hoses off. lol. oops.

 

aaron, i see no reason why he couldn't do it. many people are running without one with no problems. if he's doing a V8 swap, he's probably not worried about emissions anyways.

it is my OPINION, that you really don't need one. but that's just me. if he wants to be a little bit on the safe side, then by all means keep it.

also, i DO plan on rigging something up, as well as anyone that removes it should.

 

I removed mine with no problems, I just routed the line back under the car so the fumes aren't in the engine bay.

 

I just think it's bad advice to tell someone to remove a necessary part of their car. There's a reason that most every car on the road has a fuel tank vapour system. During filling and hot summer days, the tank builds up pressure which must be properly vented. Removal of the vapour system will gain you nothing, and the charcoal canister weighs all of 1 LB.

Venting fuel vapour into the open air ANYWHERE is just stupid.

Capping the line isn't a good idea either, because that pressure will build up in the tank and CAN cause fuel spray when you remove the cap for filling.

There is absolutely NO GOOD REASON to remove the canister. I find that most people remove these components for stupid reasons, the most often one being that they do not understand how the system works.

 

gas milage went to hell on mine when i removed it so i just put it back on. Better safe than sorry!

 

One of the points of it, from what I can tell, is more because no vapor (oil or gas) can be vented to the atmosphere, they all must be sent back into the engine to be burnt off. The charcoal canister, I think, also has a failsafe to dump fumes straight out the bottom if it's full/broken right?

 

Vent it at the cap or use the charcoal canistor. You will evaporate more gas without a canistor though. I've lost about 1/8th of a tank in 3 months