Catch tank

[dangerstevie]

Ah i see what you have done with the sensor.......thats nice, disregarded the MAF body and just kept the sensor. Could you not have pressed the sensor into a nylon adapter and then thread the outside of the adapter and screw it into a T-Pipe like you have in the pic. instead of siliconing it in?
Would be a nice finishing touch.

[p fandango]

Ah i see what you have done with the sensor.......thats nice, disregarded the MAF body and just kept the sensor. Could you not have pressed the sensor into a nylon adapter and then thread the outside of the adapter and screw it into a T-Pipe like you have in the pic. instead of siliconing it in?
Would be a nice finishing touch.

yeh that would of worked, say i was going to get a flange made but as it works as it is i just haven't been bothered to change it

[dangerstevie]

Lol fair play mate

[t5 pete]

p fandango do you or did you have nitrous on your car i bet that made a difference also stainsey did you but that catch tank and where you going to mount it

[p fandango]

p fandango do you or did you have nitrous on your car i bet that made a difference

i did but never actually used it on the engine, just on the purge kit for show (never got round to finishing the wiring on the engine side of it)

[dangerstevie]

I have a wet nitrous kit lying around with a Zex purge kit, and a 20lb bottle! was going to use it on my project mini as it seems like a waste on the volvo tbh.

[t5 pete]

lol i bet them to women behind the car in the pic woundered what the hell was going on

[p fandango]

I have a wet nitrous kit lying around with a Zex purge kit, and a 20lb bottle! was going to use it on my project mini as it seems like a waste on the volvo tbh.

it was a 20lb bottle i had, it's on the list again but probably only use it to spray over the intercooler & cool it

[BruceT]

P Fandango, you should suppy the forums with your RIP kits mate!

I left my dipstick out this evening and drove for about 2 hours, 1 hour at in traffic and 1 hour driving lol. Ahh the smell off oil and blue smoke on idle from the exhaust lol

[p fandango]

P Fandango, you should suppy the forums with your RIP kits mate!

PM me with any information you need & i'll gladly help, i the haven't time or resources to make them unfortunatly

[dangerstevie]

When i manage to get the bits together for my RIP kit, i am also doing the intake pipework, so once done ill see what the bill of materials comes to and see if its worth doing considering the prices of the existing kits.

I dont think it will come to any more than £100 for the materials. I also know a local silicone hose manufacturer so i was thinking about contacting them to see if they can do the RIP kit in silicone if i can get them a kit to model from.

All in the pipeline, will be end of jan before any progress tho.

[Volvostorm]

I could well be interested in that mate

[BruceT]

Me too, I fancy a RIP kit

[dooby]

Hiya,

I took some photos of what my catch tank collected:







In the last photo, the dark brown at the bottom is (I assume) stained water, the light brown above is (what I assume is) an oil/water emulsion.

HTH, Pete

[BruceT]

Cant see the pictures in work dooby but once im home ill have a good luck and have a go at this myself as my PCV is blocked/Clogged and have a 500 mile trip so dont wanna be running on increased pressure of the crank case so may just vent to air temporarily...?

The two pipes which you remove, what do you do with the the black box which they connect to on the plastic pipe which goes from the airbox to turbo?

[BruceT]

Great pics.

Ive just disconnected mine.

I didnt relealise that by removing the plastic block would leave a big gaping hole in the plastic intake pipe. I have nicely gaffered taped over this. Ive also pulled the larger pipe and smaller one down to the front of the engine.

Is the smaller one suppose to suck when the engine is running and does it bunging up?

[dooby]

Cant see the pictures in work dooby but once im home ill have a good luck and have a go at this myself as my PCV is blocked/Clogged and have a 500 mile trip so dont wanna be running on increased pressure of the crank case so may just vent to air temporarily...?

The two pipes which you remove, what do you do with the the black box which they connect to on the plastic pipe which goes from the airbox to turbo?

Hiya,

there's 2 pipes which come from under the intake manifold round the block under the distributor to the turbo intake pipe, a thin bore one (4mm or so) and a large bore one (15mm I think).

To fit my catch tank I disconnected the large bore pipe and carefully removed the rubber elbow. This left me 2 ends - the pipe from the block and the stub on the intake pipe. I connected these two to my catch tank. This means my system is closed, the catch tank just filters out more of the rubbish than the PCV system's oil separator under the intake manifold manages to.

If you wanted to run to atmosphere I think you'd need to block off the 15mm stub on the intake pipe (otherwise there's unmetered air coming in the MAF hasn't "counted") and leave the 15mm hose coming round the block to vent to atmosphere. I'm not sure it's a great idea but if you try it, you probably want to extend the pipe far down in the engine bay given the crud that seems to come out ;-)

HTH, Pete

[dooby]

Great pics.

Ive just disconnected mine.

I didnt relealise that by removing the plastic block would leave a big gaping hole in the plastic intake pipe. I have nicely gaffered taped over this. Ive also pulled the larger pipe and smaller one down to the front of the engine.

Is the smaller one suppose to suck when the engine is running and does it bunging up?

Hiya,

I think the plastic block is some sort of heater from what I read, it tries to only enable the PCV over 80 degrees centigrade or something.

I think the smaller pipe is supposed to have vacuum at idle - this is what would pull the PCV gases when the engine is idling and the vacuum from the turbo intake is small/non-existent. You probably want to block the small bore pipe off by the sounds of the way you've done it - it will be a small boost leak under throttle. The large bore pipe you can just vent to atmosphere and as you say move to the front of the engine :-)

You will probably notice an oily smell as you pull away from idling - I think this is because the oily gas accumulates when idling (as you've removed the vacuum system) and when you pull away the blow-by of the piston rings creates enough crankcase pressure to clear out the gas accumulated while idling.

HTH, Pete

[BruceT]

Cheers Pete,

I think both of the pipes may have "cracked" inside the larger rubber housing under the inlet manifold.

Just to confirm, I should block off the smaller one which is sucking on idle?

The plastic block has a small pin on it which the smaller (the one which is sucking) hose slides over and the larger one goes into a little hose also on the plastic block.

What I didnt mean to happen was when I pulled the larger hose off the plastic block (which has the heater connector thing on) the entire plastic block/bung thing came out of the intake pipe leaving a "D" shaped hole on the intake pipe. I think I need to replace the plastic bung which the two pcv pipes go into - I did try but it was not fitting in correctly so ive taped around it.

Ill perhaps see tomorrow and try and fit it back on and then bung up the larger hole on the plastic block and try and think of something to block the small pin one.

[dooby]

Hiya,

yes I think you want to block the smaller pipe coming from the inlet manifold which is sucking on idle.

The plastic block area on the intake pipe should all be sealed up - whether the heater block stays or not.

HTH, Pete