Blowby Breather
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What diameter lines come out of that thing?
I want to run a 1/2" Teflon line out of each valve cover, don't know if it'd be enough diameter to actually be worth it...
I don't think you have much oil that's going to come out of there. I can run mine at a couple thousand RPM without valve covers and it doesn't make a mess, the oil just slowly comes up and glistens over everything. But I've had other guys tell me that their engines do make a mess, so it's either a first gen/ second gen difference or my engine has oiling problems in its advanced age.
You definitely don't want to vent them into the air intake; that'll just get oil in the intake valves. That's what new engines do with their PCV stuff, and it sucks horribly. I'd run it down into a cup to catch the condensate and just let it bleed off to the air. And I probably wouldn't use a cup.
I want to run a 1/2" Teflon line out of each valve cover, don't know if it'd be enough diameter to actually be worth it...
I don't think you have much oil that's going to come out of there. I can run mine at a couple thousand RPM without valve covers and it doesn't make a mess, the oil just slowly comes up and glistens over everything. But I've had other guys tell me that their engines do make a mess, so it's either a first gen/ second gen difference or my engine has oiling problems in its advanced age.
You definitely don't want to vent them into the air intake; that'll just get oil in the intake valves. That's what new engines do with their PCV stuff, and it sucks horribly. I'd run it down into a cup to catch the condensate and just let it bleed off to the air. And I probably wouldn't use a cup.
