Now to the fun stuff.
I've always toyed with the idea of running a catch can on the SR, ever since running more boost and higher temperatures on those track days. Removing the ability for the power robbing, octane reducing, oil vapor being sprayed into the inlet and reducing the ability for the engine to make reliable power was starting to interest me.
The engine seemed to produce minimal oil vapor (collecting it in a temporary coke bottle under some typical driving and hard dyno runs), so that was a good sign, but insurance is always a good thing.
Not pleased with the current availability of catch cans that integrate nicely into the 1600, the ability to 'work' and capture what they are meant to capture and the damn price of some of this stuff led me to design something up. I had a sneaking suspicion in the long run it was going to end up more expensive and take longer to design/build and fit, than just purchasing something off the shelf and bolting it in, but where is the fun in that?
So off we go...
The catch can I designed is a semi-integrated design allowing the washer bottle water to partially help cool the catch can and draw some heat out of it allowing oil vapor and moisture to condense. The other 'must have' was an air path that convoluted the air enough to try and pull out any vapor accordingly.
CAD model had just enough detail to allow me to pull the trigger and purchase materials.
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