Thread: Installed an Oil Separator (Catch Can) * IMPORTANT UPDATE *

I bought an LFP oil separator for a Ford SVT Lightning off of ebay.

Oil Separartor

I also bought a valve cover breather with a PCV valve (from PepBoys) since I was using a filter before. Then tapped into the intake side of the turbo.

I haven't started her up yet.

Here are some pics.

Did you tap into the rear valve cover at all? I'm curious to see if this works to pull the air out enough.

I picked up another front valve cover to install on the rear. I'm going to drill/tap both front and rear oil caps and run nylon tubing from pre-turbo (facing into the air stream) to the front valve cover, then exit out the rear valve cover, through the catch can, and then back into pre-turbo (facing away from the air stream to create a vac).

Here's my parts so far:

No I didn't tap into the rear valve cover. I wan't getting that much oil out of the filter breather. I just rather catch it then out onto the engine.

your setup should work good.

Well I'm going to switch from a PCV breather to a regular breather then go into the oil separator.

I don't have a PCV valve and I used a breather filter and had no problem. If I use the PCV breather, it might not be good when I turn up the boost.

*** UPDATE ***

I just drove the GP for the first time since its' nice out and with this setup.

Even with the regular breather(with tube), I was getting pressure in the crankcase. This was after a while of driving. No oil came out of the breather into the catch can. I just think the foam in the breather isn't flowing enough.

I use coarse copper in the oil neck but the actual breather has foam in it. That is what I also think is the problem. It's restrictive. I think they all come with foam. I can try to just tap into the valve cover or put a fitting on a regular oil cap.

I'll try this again w/o the foam and when I install the rear breather again when I install my new valve springs.

I pulled over and put back the regular filter breather that I had on before this setup and the GP ran fine.

I was getting a lot of smoke out the exhaust and I was smelling oil.

Same thing that happened when I put on a regular oil cap to work on the engine bay so the breather would be in the way. When I forgot to put breather back on, same thing happened and pressure built up.

Here is a quick vid of oil coming out of my cutout when I didn;t take off the regular oil cap and crank pressure built up.

http://www.nymcgp.com/members/silver...CutOut_Oil.wmv

I might just sell the parts and keep the filter breather. I wans't really getting any oil coming out anyways.