Catch Cans

[walesy]

hmm might try one out, did you guys pull your manifolds off to clean them out when you put the catch can in or did you just put it in?

 

[WogBoyz]

hmm might try one out, did you guys pull your manifolds off to clean them out when you put the catch can in or did you just put it in?

I just wiped in as far as i could to clean the manifold, however mine was pretty much spotless anyway, i wiped the tb down the same way, was also pretty clean

 

[GM GEN3]

Yeah I'm going to get one does any one have a picture of how it hooks up on to the ls1 motor i looked at some pic and a lot of them are different thanks

 

[Ss666]

How hard are these to put in??? What benefits would come from a catch can? How much would a shop generally charge to put one in??

 

[WogBoyz]

Heaps easy to put on, benifits = clean manifold and smoother running/responsive (read link at top of page) as for the ls1 setup someone on here will prob have one fitted so im sure they can help you out

 

[Darren_L]

I realise my engine isn't an LS engine.
But I found out on my first track day, that when I started the engine, after sitting in the pits following a track session, the engine would blow a heap of oil smoke out the exhaust for 20 seconds or so. Seems it had dragged a heap of oil into the intake. So before next track day I fitted up a catch can and there was no further oil burning problems. And it caught quite a bit of oil in the can, especially in the early couple of sessions where I was had it sitting above 6000rpm fairly regularly.

Some advice I will offer you from my experience, is a lot of so called catch cans are simply an empty oil can with a couple of pipe fittings. They won't do a proper job of seperating the oil, because there is nothing inside to catch the oil. A proper catch can/oil seperator will have some sort of baffling inside to catch the oil before it gets sucked back into the engine. I ended up buying a catch can with nothing inside (because I couldn't find a proper one), pulled it apart, fit a piece of aluminium plate (with several holes drilled in it to allow airflow) inside dividing it into 2 halves (inlet side and outlet). Then stuffed some stainless steel wool into the inlet side so it would catch the oil. Worked a treat.

 

[WogBoyz]

Yep what he said ^ the elite however is very good qualtiy and has heaps of that steel wool looking stuff in the top part

 

[GM GEN3]

catch can install

is this how it goes i found this pic

 

[DLFHUB666]

^^^ that is a vy on setup vt/vx LS1 have a different setup. Just thought i would let people know.

 

[GM GEN3]

Does any one have a pic of the vx ls1 set up cos i couldn't find much