hacked89
Full Access Member
So a catch can? We use those on most direct injection boosted gas motors. What benefit is it on the IDI? On direct injection the valves get dirty. Mercedes uses a centrifuge which is the best system on the gas motor side IMO.Alas, sadly not worth getting oil all over my face
I'll see what I can do about that at some point. I can tell you the basics though, and you can Google "ProVent 200" if you'd like to look into it.
Basically the gasses enter the filter at the side near the top, aimed at the side, so the gasses "spin" inside the housing, creating a vortex to separate the oil out. Then it has to pass through a stainless steel mesh (on the cheap knockoff ones) or a paper filter (on the original Mann-Hummel ones). Then it goes back out a hole on the side about 3/4 of the way down from the top. There is a drain nipple on the bottom for the oil to return to the crankcase (or in my setup, go to a drain tube).
I just plugged the drain tube for now, but I plan on adding a valve to the bottom of it to manually drain it.
Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk