that is very genius I'll give you props Team slow...you aren't so slow after all...

 

:laugh:

Thanks.

 

woa woa woa, don't take all the credit...I actually had this done before you Also I was going to say that either Autozone or Advanced Auto Parts actually sells in their little help section large end caps that fit perfectly over the little pipe on the fujita intake...thats how my setup was on my fujita until I sold it on here when mazda freaked out about my modifications...

 

Definitely not taking all the credit.


I did get it from someone mentioning it on this forum and thought to myself, "that's probably the solution!"


I felt that it definitely deserves its own thread. Especially with people getting their turbos replaced!


Also, how's it coming along for you?

 

When I had mine setup that way it never smoked at all...I truely believe its the solution to most everyones smoking problems...there may be a handful that truely have bad turbo seals, but I think most of them just need to go this route and see what happens...

 

I know on older cars, that have bad valve seals and throw oil all over into their valve covers that the vent can allow oil into the intake, but, I am blown away that on basically a new car this is happening?!?! Wow...

I mean, yes, its known to occur because of the vent, but NOT on a new car! Hrm, wierd...

 

It was doing it on my turbocharged prelude with only about 50k miles on the car...

 

As for the turbos, maybe a restrictor inline for the oil feed would help.

If people are blowing their seals, it could be to too much oil pressure build up?

 

Haha, I did this when I installed the ATP kit in January because I could not find any good way to connect a hose to the inlet pipe. I had always wondered why people insisted on getting the oil catch cans when you can just solve the whole problem with a small filter.

 

Seems like a fix for the symptom, but if mine did that I would want to find the root cause. Sounds like a huge blow-by problem. Not a good thing if the rings are giving up the ghost this early. It's got to be killing the cats as well. EPA should be all over this.

 

Now instead of doing this...is it possible to install an inline filter in that hose? I had this done on my Probe as preventative maintance, but maybe I'll look into this route for the Speed now. This is not my engine bay and kinda hard to see...but you can get an idea on what I mean:

The filter itself is right next to the CarDomain tag along the bottom.


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Now instead of doing this...is it possible to install an inline filter in that hose? I had this done on my Probe as preventative maintance, but maybe I'll look into this route for the Speed now. This is not my engine bay and kinda hard to see...but you can get an idea on what I mean:

The filter itself is right next to the CarDomain tag along the bottom.
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I installed an inline fuel filter that I found at Pepboys on my Talon. I had a line coming off the vent, the filter, and then a line coming off the filter pointing down in the engine bay (didn't have an inlet on my intake pipe). Otherwise, if you just put a filter on, won't it spew oil around the engine bay?

 

The filter would be inline...meaning keeping the hose in place, just cutting it and putting the filter in there while keeping it connected to both the CAI and the engine. I have some extra hose, I am going to give this a try and see if I can make some more smoke.


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The filter would be inline...meaning keeping the hose in place, just cutting it and putting the filter in there while keeping it connected to both the CAI and the engine. I have some extra hose, I am going to give this a try and see if I can make some more smoke.
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Oh sorry, I meant to say to the original poster about oil spray with the filter connected to the vent w/o any extra hose.

 

sweet so all of you have no concept of why mazda and every other manufacture use positive preasure in the valave cover and crank case?

 

sweet so all of you have no concept of why mazda and every other manufacture use positive preasure in the valave cover and crank case?[/b]

http://www.autoshop101.com/forms/h63.pdf

Here is a decent explanation on Toyota's system. Mostly to control normal blow-by gases. It also helps keep the oil clean of blow-by gases and moisture, which is a known generator of sludge. The odd thing here is that, normally at idle, there really should not be much going through that system. There is some other problem here, not a good idea to disable that system.

If it was me, I would be taking some video and sending it to Mazda. They are obligated to fix this, of course the intake would need to be stock or MS stuff.

 

two possible conclusions

1) oem vent path is restrictive and/or blow by is high, causes back pressure in crank, and leak at tubo seals (filter stays clean). PCV should help prevent this.

2) high blow by with oil vapor (high oil level?), and mod prevents oil from reaching intake pipe. catch can would work too. (oily filter)

 

two possible conclusions

1) oem vent path is restrictive and/or blow by is high, causes back pressure in crank, and leak at tubo seals (filter stays clean). PCV should help prevent this.

2) high blow by with oil vapor (high oil level?), and mod prevents oil from reaching intake pipe. catch can would work too. (oily filter)[/b]

Or there is some other problem that needs more than band-aid attention.

 

everyone that has installed a catch can has never found any oil in them.

i really am starting to beleive that the oil smoke is coming from ring failure. think about it 9.5-1 compression with over 16 psi of boost on top of that most of the complaners are the ones that race there cars so you can factor in alot of time over 5k.

i think alot of you guys that are haveing smoke need to first do a compression test and then do a leak down test if thats fine it still doesnt rule out ring flex but its a good start towards finding the real problem

 

If what you say is true then this car would be running low on oil all the time.

 

If what you say is true then this car would be running low on oil all the time.[/b]

not really, it doeant take much oil to make smoke

are many of you haveing to add oil? because i am and i dont drive my speed6 hard but i dont drive it daily either

 

Well I have felt bad blow by before and my car didn't do it while idling. Now as far as under hard driving goes the people with catch cans should be seeing oil should they not if blow by is occurring?

 

It would be interesting to see if they made any ring or piston update/changes with the Speed3.

 

Keep an eye on that filter, I have one also and it blows off all the time, no matter how tight I wrench it down. Must be a lot of crankcase pressure being built up.

 

Keep an eye on that filter, I have one also and it blows off all the time, no matter how tight I wrench it down. Must be a lot of crankcase pressure being built up.[/b]

if you have that much preasure in your valve cover then you have bad valve seals gandalf