Technical Oil/water separators.

[martymil]

Been looking for a while for a decent on a budget water to air oil separator, whilst there are some on
the market they are overly expensive and complicated.

This has led me to design my own and thus far has worked flawlessly, I will also be incorporating a heater unit to boil off
any moisture and minimise the contents which can be either recirculated back into the sump or drained at oil change time.

I've totally got rid off the PCV system and the gases are recirculated back to the rear inlet and later once i modify my
custom front inlet will have both front and rear turbo scavenging the gases out of the motor.

Here is a quick picture of the setup

 

[derekgates]

Your engine bay continues to amaze me. I love the details you have put into it.

I am excited to hear details on this.


You have your head plugged, correct?

 

[martymil]

Had it plugged for over two years

 

[derekgates]

Had it plugged for over two years

Cool, I am about to do that this weekend.

I am running BMS and RB/Mishimoto setup for oil separation but I'd love to consolidate/improve that setup. Not loving the different sized hoses, I have a little bit of leaks from ??? and the dual canisters aren't fun to empty (nor the space)

 

[martymil]

Definitely a messy setup and high maintenance.

With the rb turbo drains I have no turbo draining issues so I wanted to try running with no pcv.

I also found my engine with cams and lower comp did not like the vacuum that was drawn by the system and was causing on//off throttle stumbling.

Car now is silky smooth.

 

[derekgates]

Definitely a messy setup and high maintenance.

With the rb turbo drains I have no turbo draining issues so I wanted to try running with no pcv.

I also found my cams and lower comp did not like the vacuum that was drawn by the system and was causing on//off throttle stumbling.

Car now is silky smooth.

Very interesting to hear about vacuum issues like that... I am curious for more when you can write it up.


You are running low lift Schrick cams? I assume a built block?

 

[martymil]

Yes, and yes.

Still haven't finished the tune as we found a few issues that are now resolved.

 

[Slowagon54]

Engine bay is pure porn! Love it

Sorry for the off topic

 

[martymil]

I guess the end of year car show judges agree with you and I'm glad people enjoy the effort.

Just representing the platform.

Wait till you see what we are doing on a certain 135 single turbo project when its all done and dusted.

 

[syn909]

@martymil Would love to see a diagram of how you plumbed that AOS, kudos! Awhile back I saw this and dreamed of setting it up: http://www.radiumauto.com/Universal-Air-Oil-Separator-Return-AOS-R-P890.aspx

 

[martymil]

I drew up a few diagrams in the vtt catch can thread and the vacuum relief valve thread.

 

[martymil]

Just a quick question, you looking to set up catch cans or a single can that can do both like mine ?

 

[syn909]

I already have two catch cans, with check valves and head ports plugged. Looking to get a single would be awesome

 

[martymil]

I personally ran one huge 4 port I made, worked perfectly and only needed cleaning every oil change.

 

[N54TT]

I don't even know what I'm looking for in the picture, but that engine bay is nice!

 

[martymil]

Here is my custom 4 port oil/water separator I made last year, works extremely well.

i also put a vac gauge on the crankcase to see how much vac is there on the dyno.

You could easily put a sensor there and use a jb4 for logging only and use a aux input to log the vacuum.

This is how I mounted the relief valve, once you get it dial in I turned it upside down so you could not see it.

 

[Reformatt]

Every time I see the engine bay I forget what is even being talked about

 

[Reformatt]

Someone cough cough needs to bring that banjo fitting X vacuum relief fitting to market....

 

[martymil]

@Tony@VTT was going to take it and make it for you guys I believe, might just have to see where's he's at.

 

[martymil]

I can make it but it costs me 100 dollars and it would be a hard sell.