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ImysE30
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Sun Sep 20, 2015 3:01 pm

I currently have a K&N filter/breather fitted on my conversion but want to replace it for a catch can now.

To the turbo guys out there, which one have you fitted and where have you located it?

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Tue Sep 29, 2015 8:48 am

Ive got a standard one from a S13/S14, but ive yet to find a place for it to fit, so my breather is just going onto the filter pipe.
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Tue Sep 29, 2015 9:20 am

just find any generic one, the only time you want a quality one is if you route it back into the intake and it must act as an oil seperator
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Tue Sep 29, 2015 5:44 pm

Those council generic ones look like elephant has just lay a stinking green sweetcorn turd in the engine bay.
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Tue Sep 29, 2015 6:21 pm

reggid wrote:just find any generic one, the only time you want a quality one is if you route it back into the intake and it must act as an oil seperator
You don't want it re-routing back into the intake, under boost applications.


A catch can, is just a catch can at the end of the day,
buy one that will suit your engine bay, if it's ugly, then mount it out the way, (not too out the way, as it will need emptied from time to time)
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Mon Mar 14, 2016 12:25 pm

I would want to run a vacuum through it personally. There's a few ways you can do it with a turbo, either a separate electric pump is sometimes used, or a pipe welded on the downpipe will draw a vacuum
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