I just want to say
one last time that if you put breather filters on all four PCV connections,
you will have no more positive crankcase ventilation.
Your crankcase
will be ventilated, of course, and any pressure build up due to blow by will be relieved, but fuel and water vapor
will condense inside your crankcase every time the engine cools and
nothing will forcibly remove those vapors while the engine is warming up. PCV exists for reasons other than just emissions, it keeps potentially corrosive vapors from collecting inside your crankcase.
Sam is absolutely correct that it will not hurt anything short term, but think about what is going on inside there over the course of a year or more. Water and gasoline sitting on parts that were never meant to have water and gasoline sitting on them.
I just really think it's foolish to do the "elimination" when you gain absolutely nothing by doing it and cause a vulnerability in the process. Last I'll say on it, I promise.
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Originally Posted by synolimit
I've never known a race track that will allow this during tech inspection. If the motor blows oil has a direct line out of the motor and onto the track and your headers. I've only known OEM setups with a catch can not vented to atmos to be legal. If the motor goes everything's contained and will run through the motor and crop dust everyone as you blow smoke out the tail pipe. At least then the oils had a chance to burn up a little. Yes throwing a rod out the block will contain no oil but that's if it happens and un-foreseeable. Yes I also know that's not the normal flow of air when hooked up but a blown motor can change the dynamics of the flow. I personally wouldn't run anything to atmos on the track. On the street I do.
Pic?
On other cars I've let it just come out if it needed to; vented to atmos, never had issues. I do think you'd run lean though "if" it were still attached to the manifold because it'd be drawing in unmetered air.
Except the MAF sensor already accounted for the air brought in through the real air filters. That's not fine as pictured because the manifold will now bring in air into the motor from two (4 total) different locations. One metered, one not. Only way it will work is a 100% capped off system letting the pcv's just open from pressure building up behind them, or OEM with a OCC. as stated though, Its not track legal to just let crank pressure blow out to atmos. Oil on the track or headers if the motor goes = burned alive.
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