Mini VTEC in Holland by Renessy

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The tubes entering the catch can are bend downwards so that the oil residue is forced downwards first. I havent filled it up with anything but I know some who did fill the can with steel wool. The disadvantage of that is that it acts as a filter that can get clogged and wont let the gasses thrue anymore and you dont want to have that. (specially when driving a forced induction engine Captain.....) I would use baffles to make the path of the gasses longer.... That way the oil residue has more time to settle down....

Hoping to have some time to finish the car next month. Still aiming for this year but dont use deadlines anymore... We'll see....

Thanks for the heads up!

Captain, I was planning on making the catch can so that there would be a vacuüm on it but that didnt work... Because I connected the top outlet from the catch can to the IM. The engine began to rev more because of the 'vacuüm leak' I made.... That's why I decided to vent it to the air. It's not harmfull or anything and when I go turbo on the mini you cant use the vacuüm line anyway because then the IM will be under pressure.... The engine dont zeem to mind either. It runs smoother then ever now....

In that way Im just working ahead.... LOL...

The only thing now is that I hope there wont be so much gasses comming out of the can that I will be sufficated in the car.... In that case I will put a hose between the can and the filter to move it outside of the car....

No problemmo!

8-10-2013

Well, after spending a couple of years in the garage I came out once again ..... Dusted myself of and booted the computer..... Windows 98 ..... 

Hahaha. No seriously I had my priorities elsewhere. 

Until a couple of weeks ago!

Engine runs fine afther changing the belt and waterpump. It goes silly mad through the revs so it slowly becomes really time to finish the car, it took long enough, right?! The only thing I still need to get is the MSD distributor cap. The coil and cables I already have.... Then the engine is finished (for the MOT.....)

Anyway, seemed okay to let you hear from me again. I haven’t been on the forum a while but after reading some posts I was happy so see some familiar names came by. Cool! It was the Captain that reminded me to update my topic again.... 

Been busy altering the fueltank to. The 2^nd inline fuelpump died afther having no fuel during a hard and long corner to the right. Time to take out the tank! I fitted in an original Honda fuelpump and made partitions in the tank that will hopefully counter with the ‘sloshing’ of the fuel. The pump inside the tank made it also more quiet. Another nice side effect.

Also installed a new steering rack. The old one I refurbished had to mush spacing on it. Now I have one with the stops so the wheels won’t touch the inside of the panels any more. 

Now I am in the stage of sanding and priming the thing. Almost half way done. When it is all the way in primer I will fix the lose ends in the body and prep it for paint.

Then II need to line the mini out, the wheels I mean. 

Anybody has the numbers for a good road use setup?

Well that's it for now. 

Cheers and till next time!