Pre cat mini meet 56k WARNING!

Jamee

We are lucky Daz turned out to be ok, he could have gone the other way see, all beware!!!! hahaha

vocky

Jamee said:
I have been offered an oil catcher tank, will it fit my bay, or are we talking alot of moving stuff around??

I seem to recall there was plenty of room near the battery for an oil catch tank, I was thinking you would need one sooner or later :roll:

Jamee

Easy to fit are they neil? and more important, do i really need one? are they worth the money?

Daz

After a while jamee all ure oily crap that was goin into ure throttle body/inley manifold will be making its way out of ure little filter and goin all over ure ecu....so i'd get one...

vocky

I would fit one, but that's me :lol:

very easy to fit, bolt the catch tank to 'something' (engine or body), then fit the small filter you have on the pipe to the oil catch tank, then connect a new piece of pipe from the cam cover to the catch tank.

heres mine on my vx220, the oil tank is circled and the pipe is marked by red dots

Jamee

I take it you have to empty it every now and again????

vocky

not often, just keep an eye on it 🙂

plenty on ebay....

http://search.ebay.co.uk/ws/search/SaleSearch?sofocus=bs&satitle=oil+catch+tank&sacat=9800%26catref%3DC5&ampsspagename=h%3Ah%3Aadvsearch%3AUk&from=R7&nojspr=y&pfid=0&fsop=1%26fsoo%3D1&fcl=3&frpp=50

Hareng

You will need room to drain periodically.
Mine only holds a mouthfull and it dont need draining yet 2k miles or more. Bad design due to the slimness and what can be done to get two 1/2" pipes on to it, so clogs the filter instead.

You will notice an improvement in economy, by the time youve slapped in around £300 of fuel it will have paid for itself. May be a performance benefit too more so than a panel filter and performance exhaust.

Hareng

Wouldnt have minded attending though i would have wanted to be away for 1pm.

Eeeer wotz this unused electrical connection going to the inlet manifold Mr Vocky?

Will have to order some larger bore dom carbon fibre.

vocky

in the pic the air temp sensor loom is unplugged (no inlet pipe fitted at the time)

the bigger plug is connected, just looks like it isn't 🙂

the sensor without a cable is the oil pressure sender, which has since been wired up 🙂

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