68 GT convertible project
Here are some smaller things I've been working on...
Earlier I showed this picture of an oil vapor separator I'm putting in the PCV line. It was just a cheap empty canister I found online. Last year I bought a 14 Ram and purchased a BT catch can for it. I looked at how that one was designed on the inside and decided to do something similar to this one for the Dart.
The BT catch can has the inlet and outlet lines separated by a wall of sorts. The vapors come into the can and run through a mesh screen. Then they turn a corner and go back through another mesh screen before exiting. That's what I tried to do here. I built a cardboard template to separate the inlet and outlet sides and transferred it to a piece of aluminum. Then I made a plate that bolts to the bottom of the "wall" to hold in the mesh screen. With this design the PCV system will be filtered twice inside the tank before entering the engine. The can on my Ram catches a lot of oil.
Here you can see how the inner "baffle" fits inside the can. You'll also see that the straight fittings that came on the can aren't on there any more. The straight fittings didn't work out very well so I ended up getting some 90 degree fittings. This allowed me to route the hoses in a much cleaner fashion.
Instead of just running rubber hose to the canister, I bent up some 1/2" aluminum fuel line to use instead. Since I'm using an Air Gap intake, I was able to route the hard line under the intake and then angle it down the back side of the passengers head. I'll only need short sections of hose to connect the canister to the carb. More on that later. Here you can see the mesh installed before I put the lid back on the canister. You can also see that I sanded off the logos that used to be on the outside.
Here are some smaller things I've been working on...
Earlier I showed this picture of an oil vapor separator I'm putting in the PCV line. It was just a cheap empty canister I found online. Last year I bought a 14 Ram and purchased a BT catch can for it. I looked at how that one was designed on the inside and decided to do something similar to this one for the Dart.
The BT catch can has the inlet and outlet lines separated by a wall of sorts. The vapors come into the can and run through a mesh screen. Then they turn a corner and go back through another mesh screen before exiting. That's what I tried to do here. I built a cardboard template to separate the inlet and outlet sides and transferred it to a piece of aluminum. Then I made a plate that bolts to the bottom of the "wall" to hold in the mesh screen. With this design the PCV system will be filtered twice inside the tank before entering the engine. The can on my Ram catches a lot of oil.
Here you can see how the inner "baffle" fits inside the can. You'll also see that the straight fittings that came on the can aren't on there any more. The straight fittings didn't work out very well so I ended up getting some 90 degree fittings. This allowed me to route the hoses in a much cleaner fashion.
Instead of just running rubber hose to the canister, I bent up some 1/2" aluminum fuel line to use instead. Since I'm using an Air Gap intake, I was able to route the hard line under the intake and then angle it down the back side of the passengers head. I'll only need short sections of hose to connect the canister to the carb. More on that later. Here you can see the mesh installed before I put the lid back on the canister. You can also see that I sanded off the logos that used to be on the outside.