Thread: Can I move/remove this?

Nice way to get that throttle cable out of the way.

Truett

If you don't mind a little dripping of oil every now and then that should work fine.

I personally believe it's good to have the Valve cover breather hooked up to the intake or turbo intake, that way the engine/turbo can help reduce the blow by gasses inside the engine. On a well boosted car that blow by can rob over 10 whp.

Other then that clean engine bay bro

Yeah, its actually pretty easy all you have to do is re adjust the throttle tensioner so it doesn't rev up =D I also moved the throttle cable clip to the back so it can still hold it.



Well if I do happen to get oil drip, it'll be onto the ground haha. But from what I could see, nothing was coming out. I was thinking of running some tests on it but that would take so much time I think that I would rather just not do that hehe. I might add like a ome made catch can or something temporarily and see if there is a lot of stuff collecting in it. That should give me some idea of how well it works.

If you hook up the crankcase outlet to the intake, you are only reburning whatever hydrocarbons are still leftover and happen to combust the next time through. Pure air intake would almost certainly be better for power since you would have more oxygen per volume of air. I think what you meant though is that the vacuum applied to the block by doing this can helpful, no? I think you had a thread about that.

Haha, yea I've spent the last 4 days about 6-7 hours a day cleaning it up and tucking wires. But I've got a lot more to go yet. Plan to get it twice as clean as it is now!

Ah yes the hydrocarbons. I don't think they help all that much. Thus I dunno how much a PCV valve would hinder gas mileage. I know it won't help with power.

Now I meant Vacuum in the block is desired, that way the pistons can move freely compared to having to have back pressure from blow by. Yes I did have a thread about it, and I remember someone mentioned that a Mustang did either 30 whp more or 30 ft-lbs of torque more without an oil cap.

I plan on dynoing the car with VC breather hooked up and just atmosphered.

You also gave me an idea for the PCV valve

Take a rubber band or something and use it to hold on a section of white hand towel or something. Use it as a ghetto filter on the top of that crank case vent hose. Drive around for a week and then check it for oil coloration. You'll get a good idea of how much is leaving the crank case. Personally, my towel was almost completely white still after a month of this. Your result may vary.

That's almost exactly what I was going to do heh. I might try it yet since I have a 400 mile drive coming up soon and it'd be a good time to test that.

All idle a cruising crankcase ventilation is covered by the PCV line from the top left of the valve cover (with the check valve) that goes to the intake manifold. The other two provisions are for WOT operation, so a 400 mile cruise isn't as good as say a couple quick quirts around town with a decent amount of WOT thrown in. Basically, drive how you normally would around town. Unless you go WOT often on the freeway, it's not going to be a good test.

Good point, didn't know that! I will do some testing and put up results then. Going to be a while though heh.

I'm actually considering of running the PCV and Breather from the turbo inlet pipe.

That way don't have to have the Intake Mani hooked up to the PCV, and still have the benefit of having vacuum running through the engine...

That's not going to work. While there is a bit of vacuum between the air filter and the throttle plate, the real vacuum is in the intake manifold between the throttle body and the valves. This is the best place to use to ventilate the crank case. Because this place losses it's vacuum during WOT, really anywhere from the filter to the valves is just the same and anywhere in there will have similar vacuum strength (except turbo cars obviously where the only semblance of vacuum at WOT is found between the air filter and the compressor).