Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Catch Can

Well, I searched around for a decent catch can. Yea, JDM tite ones are sweet, but they are just mirrored boxes. None are very good and NONE come with baffles.

After searching and searching I went the "make your own" way.

I bought the Husky oil separator from Home Depot at the high cost of 12 bucks. It's a small container that runs air into a tank and then through a filter (aka baffled). I hooked up some nipples to it, and Ta Da, a baffled catch can.

Yea it is small, but I have no problem regularly checking it. Hell, its better than 90% of the shit on the market.





Sunday, August 29, 2010

The little things.

I spent some time pulling shit out of the car. It isn't so much the weight, but the fact that I know in the back of my mind it is useless weight.

I stripped out the trunk and pulled the sound deadening - not a very good weight-to-time ratio, but I have a better piece of mind now.

I also pulled the cruise control assembly. This didn't weigh a whole lot, but now the engine bay is a little cleaner and I have room to mount a catch can. Now I won't make a smoke cloud (James Bond style) behind the car in high g right hand turns.

Being a engineer (anal and nerdy by nature) I weigh everything I put or pull off the car. This would be a 5 hour investment and a 24.2 lb loss.

I suppose more productive then the usual....COD.