Fuel Air Vapor Charcoal Canister Thingy?

[RBFIRE]

Most R33, they have it sitting near the air Box,

but some how mine is on the driver side, under the guard. Not in the engine bay, its siting like a SMIC position, but on the driver side.

Bought it that way, and its 1 huge mathafaka. I seen other small canister, but my is like 3-4 times bigger!

[_Scotty_]

I've just been looking at my carbon canister and things don't seem right. Mine is in the drivers side guard. It has 3 fittings on the top, one is going to the tank, one to air, and one to the manifold. The hose coming off the throttle is blocked off. Is this a factory item or something that's been put on later? How should it be plumbed in, ie should the throttle hose be connected? There's no markings for where the fittings are meant to go.

[djr81]

There are three lines to the canister.

The most important of which comes from the fuel tank. Do not just blank this off or worse, leave the open end near your nice, hot turbo.

The other two lines connect into the engine intake.

The canister can be relocated to the RHD drivers side after you move the battery to the boot. Happilly the two connections to the engine intake are plumbed across the front of the motor. So you can use one of them to reconnect the fuel tank line to the relocated cannister. The two lines from the engine intake are then nice & close to the cannister & are easy to hook up.

That is what I did anyway.

[GeeTR]

I've just been looking at my carbon canister and things don't seem right. Mine is in the drivers side guard. It has 3 fittings on the top, one is going to the tank, one to air, and one to the manifold. The hose coming off the throttle is blocked off. Is this a factory item or something that's been put on later? How should it be plumbed in, ie should the throttle hose be connected? There's no markings for where the fittings are meant to go.

Post #12 if you read it, is pretty self explanatory.

[_Scotty_]

Post #12 if you read it, is pretty self explanatory.

Not quite, the one I have is Australian made so I assume it was added during compliancing. The factory one seems to have had 2 connections for the intake, this one only has 1. Currently it has 1 air, 1 fuel and 1 intake line. Is it worth getting a replacement stock one, or stick with what I've got? If I stick with it, is the line to the intake better plumbed into the throttle body or manifold, or maybe use a t piece and connect it to both? Is a connection to air even needed?

Edited May 22, 2008 by _Scotty_

[GeeTR]

Is your car turbo? - sounds like your cannister is missing the purge valve on top, meaning its for a NA car usually.

The connection is needed to draw fumes from the cannister into the motor, and bring fresh air from in underneath.

Good question about where you put that single line. As theres no boost pressure to worry about, id say hook it up to the plenum... someone correct me if im wrong, i haven't worked on a non turbo car in like a decade

Edited May 22, 2008 by GeeTR

[_Scotty_]

My car's a gts-t, which is what got me worried. I suspect this canister is some cheapy, and that if it doesn't have a valve built in then it's letting boost in. The tank always seems to have a lot of pressure when I open it, and i sometimes get weird blow off valve type sounds from the guard so it's time to get hold of a stock one and put things right again...

[RBish]

the top fitting on my canister has been melted off with a lighter. it looks as tho this is one of the two that goes to the manifold, was just hoping it wasnt the one that vents back to the fuel tank. this could be a reason that my engine is running so rich...

[Room42]

Hi,

I've seen a post on here before about this but I can't find it anywhere after doing numerous searches So ill just ask again

What I wanted to know is how do I get rid of or re-rout that charcoal canister thing in front passenger side of the engine bay. If anyone knows how to do this or even know what im talkin about if you could help me out it would be great thanks.

Cheers

If you want to do this to get more power don't waste your time. People used to do this back in the days of 186's and 202's. It made a difference on these cars cos the 202 or 3.3L as some would call it, had only 101kw at the flywheel.

If you want more power get a bigger turbo.

If you absolutely must do this then just block the vac lines to the manifold and leave the fuel purge line just hanging there. Expect to smell fuel vapours in the cabin.