Hi fellas, wanted to write to share another simple project…
When Robbie was working with my motor I was surprised by several things that really revealed how invasive and pervasive carbon contamination is starting with the whole intake system and then continuing through the motor depositing carbon and contaminates on virtually each and every surface and finally exiting through the exhaust while still depositing carbon and contaminates.
On the one hand we were pleasantly pleased with how little carbon and contaminates were deposited on my cylinder walls, piston tops, or valves and I attribute that to the regular usage of BG 44K. I was also pleasantly pleased with how little carbon or contaminates were on my turbo exit tube or in my exhaust either before or after my cat. This I also attribute to the regular usage of BG 44K. However throughout the intake system ( upper and lower intake plenums, intake side of head, etc ) there were thick layers of carbon and crap that were so thick and so strong that nothing short of soaking in the machine shop solvent tank though the night would remove them. I regularly use the BG air intake cleaner and while this made the throttle body completely clean it apparently did absolutely nothing to clean the intake system past the throttle body.
I know that carbon can cause all sorts of problems from less intake and exhaust efficiency, to predetonation problems, sticky rings, sticky valves, scored cylinders, and dirtier emissions and dirtier oil. I decided to do something to totally prevent future problems resulting from carbon. By the time Robbie was done working my motor was sparkly and shiny inside and I wanted to totally keep things that way.
After much research I realized that the simplest way to prevent the problems that were not worked out with regular usage of BG 44K (from combustion chamber on) was to install extremely effective catch cans to catch any and all traces of unburnt oil from the turbo air exchange system and also any and all traces of burnt carbon and contaminates from the PCV system.
After even more research I decided on the “Accurate Machine Works” catch cans and ordered one with 5/8” inlet and outlet for the turbo air exchange system and one with 3/8” inlet and outlet for the PCV air recirculation system. The AMW catch cans are a wonderful work of art; completely CNC machined for precision and purpose through and through. These are not average catch cans like the Greddy catch can I originally purchased which would honestly do almost nothing to catch the crap our engines repeatedly regurgitate. If yer interested, take a looksee at the setup I fabbedup and tellme whatchya think…
First a foto of the completely cleaned motor sans head...
When Robbie was working with my motor I was surprised by several things that really revealed how invasive and pervasive carbon contamination is starting with the whole intake system and then continuing through the motor depositing carbon and contaminates on virtually each and every surface and finally exiting through the exhaust while still depositing carbon and contaminates.
On the one hand we were pleasantly pleased with how little carbon and contaminates were deposited on my cylinder walls, piston tops, or valves and I attribute that to the regular usage of BG 44K. I was also pleasantly pleased with how little carbon or contaminates were on my turbo exit tube or in my exhaust either before or after my cat. This I also attribute to the regular usage of BG 44K. However throughout the intake system ( upper and lower intake plenums, intake side of head, etc ) there were thick layers of carbon and crap that were so thick and so strong that nothing short of soaking in the machine shop solvent tank though the night would remove them. I regularly use the BG air intake cleaner and while this made the throttle body completely clean it apparently did absolutely nothing to clean the intake system past the throttle body.
I know that carbon can cause all sorts of problems from less intake and exhaust efficiency, to predetonation problems, sticky rings, sticky valves, scored cylinders, and dirtier emissions and dirtier oil. I decided to do something to totally prevent future problems resulting from carbon. By the time Robbie was done working my motor was sparkly and shiny inside and I wanted to totally keep things that way.
After much research I realized that the simplest way to prevent the problems that were not worked out with regular usage of BG 44K (from combustion chamber on) was to install extremely effective catch cans to catch any and all traces of unburnt oil from the turbo air exchange system and also any and all traces of burnt carbon and contaminates from the PCV system.
After even more research I decided on the “Accurate Machine Works” catch cans and ordered one with 5/8” inlet and outlet for the turbo air exchange system and one with 3/8” inlet and outlet for the PCV air recirculation system. The AMW catch cans are a wonderful work of art; completely CNC machined for precision and purpose through and through. These are not average catch cans like the Greddy catch can I originally purchased which would honestly do almost nothing to catch the crap our engines repeatedly regurgitate. If yer interested, take a looksee at the setup I fabbedup and tellme whatchya think…
First a foto of the completely cleaned motor sans head...