Looks cool. Helpful in limited space even if it has to be emptied after each session. Capacity might not be enough in severe situation, but probably still better than nothing.

 

It only needs to be changed about every 4th oil change with spirited driving about 80% of the time.

Even at the 4ht oil change the oil is only about 1/2 of the way between the bottom of the container and the bottom of the filter.

 

But that's probably not on the track. I know we can lose a lot of oil in one session on some tracks, so I expect there will be overflow in these instances, but in the end it would be that much less oil going into the intake manifold in that session. Will be interesting to test and see.

 

that

 

I think that I have one of these on my compressor



There is a glass bell on the bottom (that is visable in deppenma's photo if you look close) with a presta type valve.Tthat's a rubber cap in my photo.


Kind of a elegant/simple solution...

But the bell is small and would need to be emptied often (and while under pressure I would assume)...

 

Yeah I looked at one while I was at Home Depot today. Wonder if you could find a larger bowl that would fit, or modify this one to piggyback on a larger reservoir. Seems the valve could be removed for this application.

 

Some of us use water injection with boost. It's like steam cleaning the combustion chamber.

I find 100 octane fuel and less part throttle driving around town to cause less carbon deposits. I also find that my car drives much better when it gives me 9 mpg from spirited driving vs the 14 mpg I get on the fwy

I recently tried the Motul fuel system cleaner and pre-change engine oil treatment. They worked very well.

 

go run a search in honda-tech.com, there's like 10 million honda guys use that stuff.


BUT i would only use it as a manifold cleaner(thru brake booster vaccum), from what i heard, if you pour it into your crank, it will break down the oil, not sure how well the block will like to run water thin lube.

i tried it in my old beater legend, i know they said you can run those in the crank and as well as the tank but i am too scare to try to mystery formula for the S.

I am now using valvoline synpower throttlebody cleaner for intake manifold and HONDA OEM top engine cleaner for cylinder, i got rid/100% of the stalling, my manifold was very dirty before(at 94 k almost)

i made a thread about the top engine cleaner as well, that stuff is ten time stronger than seafoam anyways

I am running a Home Depot catch can also, almost half filled for one oil change

 

It looks like you are catching more PCV gunk than I do at 25,000 miles

Its not that hard to empty the reservoir if it does need to be drained in-between oil
changes.


I take a look at mine every week when I check the oil level I am under the hood already and its only a 2 sec glance and maybe a 1min job to drain out the oil.


The very little hassle it adds to my weekend preventative maintenance is worth it to prevent a bit of sludge build up

 

Re the mini catch can, have you guys used synthetic engine oil (and which)? Intructions says certain synthetic oils are not compatible with the polycarbonate bowl, and temperature spec. is 125*F (52*C), which I presume is much lower than the temp. of the fumes from the PCV.