by colin b on Mon Jun 22, 2015 11:00 pm
Well, I now have sore fingers and my vocabulary of swear-words has had a serious inventory check but my Drift catch can is now in place and working.
I used a length of 30mm x 30mm x 2mm aluminium angle from Bunnings for the mounting bracket and hung it from the plate against the firewall on the battery side of the engine bay. I pop-riveted a 50mm piece back to back at the top to make a T bracket which spanned two of the built-in holes in the plate which already had captive nuts behind them. I then riveted another short length to the drop which made that into a U shape and bolted the L bracket which came with the can to this. It was quite rigid when I had finished.
Hardest part was what I had expected to be the easiest - fitting the hoses. The hydraulic hose I had bought was extremely difficult to get onto the nipples of the can and near-impossible to get onto those on the block and the flexible hose from the airbox. It was also obvious that the hose from the block would kink if I tried to run it around behind the rocker cover.
In the end I boiled the end of the hose for several minutes , pulled the plastic nipple out of the ribbed plastic hose, greased it up and used a rubber mallet plus a lot of pushing and cursing to slip it on and secured it with a hose clamp.
For the nipple on the block I used the original wriggly hose cut off at the half-way point where it served as a right-angle elbow. That went onto the nipple easily enough and boiling water, rubber mallet and a volley of suitable swear-words enabled me to fit the hydraulic hose to the elbow with a brass joiner.
I finished up only using 2 metres of the hydraulic hose so, hopefully, the change in resistance of the longer hose won't cause any difficulties.
I considered putting steel wool or stainless steel scourers into the can for filtration but, although it didn't seem to change the resistance to any degree, I was antsy about particles flaking off and making their way into the inlet manifold so left the can empty.
Just for my information - can anyone with a bit more mechanical knowledge explain what the implications are if I have increased the resistance in the plumbing by fitting this can? I would hate to blow up my turbo or do other damage which would not be covered by the warranty.
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