I took some notes and pics of my Perrin Oil Catch can installation....

EJ Evo's Perrin Oil Catch Can install

 

What is the purpos of the catch can? Is it really necessary? If it is I would like to get one. Anything to keep my car healthy.;.......

 

Yes it keeps oil out of the intake track ( fmic, throttle body, ic piping).

 

What would be a good one to get......?

 

any is good, perrin, helix, greddy, obx. Just make sure you install it right. It supposed to drain the moisture in the oil so it does not "gunk" up the FMIC,intake...

 

Does anyone have this installed and if so what are your toughts....? The reason I ask is because it seems like a healthy thing to do for the car, but with every action there is a reaction and I just want to make sure what can go worng before I do somthing I know nothing about..

 

Question on EJ's install. If you have to empty the oil catch once and awhile do you have to take off the strut bar every single time to empty it. I'm supposing so since you have to take it off to install it. If that is the case anyone else with the perrion oil catch can that installed it somewhere else in the engine bay with the stock setup? I don't want to have to take off the strut bar every time I need to empty the catch can. How often do most of you empty it anyways? Just curious because mine should be here any day.

 

Bump! so someone will answer my question.

 

The bad part is that it is not smog legal. The good is what everybody say about not getting the intake system all gunked with oil vapors(that is, if you boost alot). Also, in my opinion, it lowers that chances of intake hoses popping off like some members are having.

 

can someone answer my question please about the catch can?

 

Sorry cruisin_lancer for the delay in answering - for some reason I'm not getting notices of postings in here.

Strut tower brace removal for maintenance? Yes, you need to take off the tower brace. The catch can sits pretty much right under the stock tower brace, and the ABS lines are directly behind it. No room to pull it out in front of the tower brace, so it has to come out straight up.

I haven't had to pull mine out yet - the sight glass (actually a clear plastic tube) shows there's oil in it, but it hasn't accumulated yet to the point where it is solidly filling the can. I'll probably do this in the spring.

As far as this item affecting emissions, I don't see how it could. In essence, the can is simply being spliced into the existing hose connection between the crankcase and the intake. It's still air-tight, and isn't changing the routing of air between parts. I can't see it being a factor in emissions, except that you should be burning a little cleaner by removing some oil from the intake air stream....

Concerning the brand recommendation - I can't recommend the Perrin, but I can't say avoid it, either. It's working fine, but the nipples' threads pretty much welded themselves to the metal top of the "can" (actually a silicone hose body with metal end plates top & bottom) when I was assembling it, so that limits my maintenance options since I can't take it fully apart if I wanted to. The main problem I experienced was attempting to get the nipples on the top to hold the mounting bracket tightly so it wouldn't rattle. I ended up putting a bend in the mounting bracket to help take up the slack that the nipples couldn't. Cusco seems to be a pretty good name - if I had it to do again I'd go with them. Perrin caught my eye because they had good photos and documentation on the installation.

 

Thanks for answering that for me EJ. I did have better luck with tightening down my nipples on the top. On the nipples I used teflon tape on the threads. Made threading in the nipples A LOT easier. It did take a couple times of tightening to get them to tighten down the braket all the way. It looks nice with no bent brackets.

 

So which one did you end up getting then?? The Perin or the Cusco?

 

I have Perrin and I like it.

 

I have the Perrin too. Very nice.