Catch Can Empty

[AMR33]

Hey folks. After doing a few track days, my catch can is empty. Is this normal? I have it set up like Hamish did here http://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/129549-oil-catch-can-mounting-and-roughting/page-2

Can someone shed some light on why this may be?

Cheers

Amir

[Ben C34]

That's good!

[vetter2769]

because your not running massive amounts of boost, which causes crank pressure which causes oil to blow out the breather hole and get trapped in your catch can.

[XKLABA]

Is there oil in the sump, yes ?, play on

No oil in the catch can is what most people want to achieve

[MrStabby]

Is there some sort of mesh inside the catch can? If not, the oil vapour may be passing straight through.

[AMR33]

Cheers for the input guys. Yes, my thoughts were that no oil in CC = good but wanted to make sure as Ive been revving the car pretty hard. Yes there is stainless steel mesh in the can to act as a baffle.

Cheers

Amir

[ausdrift]

I had the same thing when I used to drift my 33; never any oil there. I was running std boost, but still I couldnt help but think something wasn't quite right

[AMR33]

Yeah thats it. I thought there would be a few ml in there after a few track days. But im also running low boost on a std turbo

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

depends on the health of the motor too..

My 400000km motor coughs up about 5/10 mL of oil after a full day of thrashing on the track and loads of rev bashing and runs 1.4bar on the track opposed to 1.6bar on the street.

Which is pretty good, unless it has been rebuilt in the past (which I can't tell it has been).

[AMR33]

Wow your motor has done that many KMs and still goes hard? Makes me less worried about my 175000KM motor which I thought was too high

[Ben C34]

Wow your motor has done that many KMs and still goes hard? Makes me less worried about my 175000KM motor which I thought was too high

Don't worry chances are your engine has done way more k's than that already

[AMR33]

I doubt that but then again I'm not the first owner

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

Wow your motor has done that many KMs and still goes hard? Makes me less worried about my 175000KM motor which I thought was too high

I just assume that the odometer has been wound back multiple times from all the dealers and previous owners.

It shows 144xxx kms, come on can't be real lol

[AMR33]

yeah its sad that we're at a point where you cant simply trust the odo reading on skylines

[GTSBoy]

yeah its sad that we're at a point where you cant simply trust the odo reading on skylines

Um. That point was when the very first secondhand imports of Skylines started coming in last century.

[AMR33]

Yes, hence we are at this point now

[GTSBoy]

An 18 year stretch is a fairly long point.

[iruvyouskyrine]

Nah nah nah mate. The car salesman I saw in parramatta road told me I got a great deal on a mint condish genuine low kilometre car! Why does he have any reason to lie to me about it!

[Humbla]

Mine had 67000 on it when I got it 12 years ago yeah right,all the 33s I looked at had pretty much the same.

I can't com plane if you look after your engine it will last a very long time.:-)

[wolverine]

Some clown said my '96 R33 with >230,000km was too high for him. I asked him how much more he would pay me if I had it wound back to show whatever number he thought would be right for him.

I bought it with 57,000 on the clock in 2001 and it is possible it was genuine then.....but then again.