Fitting an oil catch tank to 3SGE BEAMS Options

[Ronan]

I was looking at how an oil catch tank would fit in my car today as i have one on the way to stop all the oily crap from the breathers going back into the intake, and i got a bit lost because ive two breathers.

Do i remove and fit the catch tank to the yellow breather or green breather?



Or would i blank off both intake ends and fit the catch tank to both breathers on the engine?

Ignore the blue circle, i was missing a bracket but i found it in the boot

This post has been edited by Ronan: Feb 1, 2009 - 8:38 AM

[stephen_lee]

ok, the yellow is a fresh air supply to your crankcase, while the green is your PCV line. since the green is going to your manifold, it will see vacuum and you want tp place the catch can between your crankcase and a vacuum source to get the whole "positive" ventilation.

so to answer you. use it on the green line, and leave the yellow in place

[presure2]

ok, the yellow is a fresh air supply to your crankcase, while the green is your PCV line. since the green is going to your manifold, it will see vacuum and you want tp place the catch can between your crankcase and a vacuum source to get the whole "positive" ventilation.

so to answer you. use it on the green line, and leave the yellow in place

actually, you'd want it on the yellow line, between the valve cover and the intake piping.

that hose that is connected from the valve cover to the intake piping is always under vac, pulling combustion gasses out and thru the intake, back into the intake manifold.
its just like a 3rd gen 3sgte, only the 'te has the factory catch can built in, that drains the collected oil back into the head.

'berto, if you set it up like i explain above, you will no throw any codes, because it still is working like a factory setup, just with a spot to collect the spent oil and gasses, insead of it going back into the intake manifold.