I searched the forums and only found chat and instructions for mounting an oil catch can. If anyone has a pic of where they mounted theirs or pics of others mounted on an FD that would be awesome. Thanks...

 

http://reganrotaryracing.tripod.com/catch.htm

 

Thanks for the good find Mahjik! I needed that info too.

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Do oil catch tanks really filter out your oil?

Just wondering if they're more gimmick or if they really do have some purpose...

 

chopstix---I just know they arent allowed at a lot of races here in Japan.

Oil catch can is for blow-back. Im not sure how useful it would be on a rotary though. Piston engines it would definatly be worth it, I think more so on a street car.

 

chopstix,

The catch can really isn't for filtering. Hard cornering causes excess oil to get pushed into the intake track. The oil will then end up shooting out your BOV or into your airbox when running the car hard on tracks. The catch can is suppose to give the oil somewhere else to go besides your intake track.

They are useful to a point, but as Crispy's site mentions, it doesn't solve the problem for everyone who tracks their FD.

For a street car, it's not much use.

 

Thanks for your info..

I guess Ill scratch off my list.....

 

Mahjik---As in the hard cornering and such its partly true, but also under several conditions, which in hard street driving/drifting/drag its all harder conditions then the curcuit track as in blow back.

Like mentioned though, you are UNABLE/ BANNED from the track in Japan for using them on the curcuit track.

 

First thing, people shouldn't be driving their car hard enough to have this problem on the public streets. It's dangerous for other people which is why I said it's not a helpful mod for a street car.

As far as drifting, same thing as above. Something that shouldn't be done on pulbic streets, so that falls into the "tracking the FD" catagory. Basically this can happen anytime there is a lot of prolonged lateral G's on a "track".

I've never heard of this problem with drag racing. I can't see the oil being pushed through the PCV in just a drag race. This is typically a problem coming from lateral G's.

I don't know about curcuit racing in Japan but my comments were never directed towards that.

 

The pic wouldnt come up for me. Anyone else?

 

Mahjik---Im just speaking from a Japan point of view since I was pointing my comment towards "chopstix" who is in Japan. Japan streets arent even close to the same of any US street/roads I have ever been..

anyway..... not important anyway....