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oil breather tank

I'm looking for an oil breather- puke tank. I would like it to have two hoses to valvecover and oil fill breathercaps, a drain ,and sight tube to see what has been captured, and a breather filter. Normally fresh air filtered at tank breather filter would be sucked into valvecovers. Under extreme conditions if there is excess crank case pressure it would vent into tank. Plan is to mount it to back side of right front wheel well. Hoses would go to right valvecover breather and intake manifold oil filler tube breather cap. Seen any thing like this?

Try Canton's web site. If you don't see what you want, call them.
Bill Stradtner

Michael,

Go to my gallery and if you squint at the engine pics you will see how I have a remote breather tank coming off the driver's side. Tank is mounted on the front cross-member (centered). Passenger side vents directly to the intake manifold. I get zero oil blow-by with this set-up (and no loss of performance), and it could be easily modified to flow both lines to the tank if I wanted to go through the expense. It's essentially the set-up that came with the car (I bought pre-owned) and it has served me well. The billet valve cover breathers (with provisions for AN fittings) can be bought from Cobra Valley (about $75 ea). It's functional...it looks trick...I like it.

Regards,

-Dean

I gave up and ordered a custom tank from UK

Mike, what did you find? Link or details?

Brad

I was doing a lot of looking around and started looking at E-Bay. My search was "OIL BREATHER TANK". I came up with several including the usual Moroso and such. Either not enough volume or too long. I was looking at #260045501109 a squarish 1 liter tank with breather by" Nor-Mal" . It only mentioned metric fittings and at that time I thought I may want to change things and didn't want to start cutting and welding.
So I started looking at the more traditional upright cyindrical tanks by "cater7man" in UK. #270066080076 , a 2 liter tank with two 1/2" curved tube nipples pointed away from away from the mounting bracket and a 3/4" tube nipple pointed upwards for a breather.
I asked for some changes . Two 5/8" curved tubes pointed rearwards and one 1 " nipple pointed upwards for a breather, Two smaller tubes stragically placed on the side pointed at each other so I can connect them with a piece of clear tubing forming a sight tube, a formed bottom with a drain.
I found a breather at Summit #KNN-62-1511 a half sheilded filter that clamps over a 1 inch tube. I received a quote and I jumped on it . This kind of stuff is how time is passing me by. I can only look at the computer so long.

I had an AN fitting welded to my valve cover and plumbed it to a Jazz can.

http://www.priveye.com/dls/jazcan.jpg
http://www.priveye.com/dls/jazcan2.jpg

Roscoe

Roscoe, that is really nice.

I have been thinking of a tank. Not sure how to drain it to the crank case without causing other problems. I suppose I could drill and tap the intake and use a brass fitting to connect the tank to the intake manifold.

:D

MCH,
You might try searching for OVST or Oil Vapor Separator Tank. My car came with one mounted to the firewall with fittings for two breathers coming from the engine, one from the trans/dif (or a vent) and one for drainback to the oil pan.

http://kms.nfshost.com/kmp/0373/k373x232(800x600).jpg

I'm abandoning my old setup. I'm incoorporating a Dove PCV from the rear center of the intake manifold to the manifold plenimum. This tank will act as a catch tank in the event of a catristrafic failure. But the plan is to get a flow of filtered air into the engine crankcase at valvecover breathers and front right intake manifold oil filler tube breather. The old system ,when at wide open throttle, the valvecover vents with PCV valves puked to inside the S&H aircleaner bases and made a mess of the top of the carbs and filter elements