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Old 08-30-2017, 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Tom Howland View Post
Patrickt,

That is a very clean install. How often do you empty the separator? I'm assuming it has to be removed to be emptied.
My valve cover is nicely baffled underneath the PCV outlet, so not a lot of oil gets sucked up in to the separator to begin with. The separator unscrews in to two parts, with a rubber O-ring between them, since it has to be air-tight. I think most of us would get by with a once-a-driving-season dump. Now, be advised that you'll see a vacuum drop at idle. I went from about 12" down to 9" (both with and without the oil separator) when I went from an off-the-shelf PCV valve to the Wagner. This valve, along with cracking my secondaries open just a bit so that I can have my primary butterfly down at the bottom of the transfer slot, really makes my idle nice and reliable even with the hottest of under-hood temps. Before doing all of that, I would occasionally have to "heel and toe" the throttle at stoplights, on really hot summer days, after having run her hard. I no longer have to do that at all.
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