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Legalising the catch-can on my R32!

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Hey all,

I recently bought an R32 Skyline with a few mods, one of them was a catch can but it has been set up to vent atmo rather then back to the intake which I would prefer.......Let's just say I've already been pulled for a 'modification check' in the first couple of weeks of owning the car for no apparent reason other then the fact I drive a Skyline, the cop was extremely reasonable and rather then defect the car, he suggested I research the legality of the modifications. So basically I want the car to be as legal as possible (well the glaringly obvious stuff anyway! :D )

When the catch can was installed in my car, the metal pipe that ran from the turbo inlet up to the rocker cover (which then is connected to the LH PCV breather via a rubber hose) was totally removed (see pic below, crappy resolution but it shows my setup up top and below an R32 without a catch can, thanx whoever it belongs to!).

I would like to restore this setup so I can run the catch can legally, but I think it could be difficult to find that metal pipe. So my question is, can I just run silicon or rubber hosing straight down to the turbo inlet pipe? It is awfully close to the exhaust manifold shield, will the hose be able to take the heat or should I try and source the factory item?

BTW - the second pipe running from my catch can in the pic doesn't go anywhere, it's basically the vent...........tut tut! :D

R32_PCV.jpg

Any information would be great, thanks! :D

Dave.

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I've never taken a great deal of notice to where actually the return pipe meets between the turbo and AFM. But i think it should be ok to use a rubber or silicon item as long as the manifold heat shield is in between the manifold and whatever you wanna use. As i have routed a rubber pipe mistakenly wrong once and it actually got pushed under the heat shield and very close to the manifold. Consequently the outside of the pipe started to melt. Lucky i spotted it and moved it so it ran along the outside of the heat shield and presto, no problems.

I would try to source the factory item first, as it shouldn't be hard to get.

By the way the second pic you got there is my engine bay. And in the next week or so i will have a catch can fitted. One that recirculates. :(

Regards,

Scott

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Hey Scott,

Thanx for the info!

That's right - now I remember I got the pic from your site, nice R32 BTW! Really nice pics too - had one as my desktop image for a while, what camera did u use?

The return pipe should be right next to the factory blow-off valve return pipe, probably around midway between the AFM and the turbo. Tomorrow I'm going to go to a few wreckers around the place and see how I go! Since the blow-off return looks as though it was spot welded to the PCV return I'll probably have to get both.

Good luck with the catch can you're getting, believe me they do quite a bit on the RB20, mine is reasonably low kilometres (70k) and it picks up quite a bit of crud that otherwise would be coating the intake piping.

cya,

Dave.

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Scott - I thought it might have been a Canon Powershot! Excellent cameras those, my friend has the 3.2mp version - going to get myself either the 4 or 5mp powershot very soon!

Chef_32 - I'm in Emerald man, (so outer SE really) which if u haven't heard is home of 'Hello-Hello' Chris and Maries plant farm......*shudder* but fortunately not too far from civilisation! ;)

My R32 Beast: :(

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~isf22/R32_2.jpg

cya,

Dave.

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