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I have decided to go with the Elite catch Can. I just have a few questions. What type of bracket would I need/choose for a spare battery box area mount when ordering off their website? and does it require me purchasing steel wool? I Cant remember if it does or not. Thanks in advance.

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Here at RX now they are doing a video install on my truck

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My dealership said my catch can wasn't needed and wouldn't catch anything. I opened it in there shop after 2,000 miles and let it run on the floor. Lol

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So, I added a second output fitting to my Original RX catch can. I had been emailing with the RevExtreme folks about the benefits of a dual output can, and they were gracious enough to send me the par

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Spurshot Senior Enthusiast

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Another 2016 Camaro 6.2 pic. Routing of hoses that come off valve cover and TB area seem to be a little different. Maybe they changed it for production?

 

Chevrolet-Camaro-SS-2016-moteur.jpg

 

Check out those shorties. Totally tubular... Looks like the intake manifold is the Vette manifold with the slight turned down throttle body. The pan looks like a dry sump.

 

My take on the hose that T-s into the crossover hose (in the engine in the car) from the rocker covers, is that it's the "dry side" and has a small separator and hooks into the side of the intake duct. There will be some kind of drain back to the sump. No car maker would have you draining a can every 500 miles. They haven't made a car that needed service at 500 miles in 80 years. But I don't see a wet side PCV separator in the picture. Maybe under the intake duct?

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Silverado-Hareek Senior Enthusiast

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But I don't see a wet side PCV separator in the picture. Maybe under the intake duct?

 

I was thinking it's that top hose toward the back of the engine. It looks like the port on the right is the intake into the valley cover. But I can't tell if the other end of the hose is coming out of a catch can or oil/water seperator of some sort or if it's coming straight out of the crankcase port. The article isn't very clear about what this engineer actually did to the engine. He could have just made that mod to the clean side lines. Or not. They don't explain it very well...

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Jsdirt Senior Enthusiast

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No car maker would have you draining a can every 500 miles. They haven't made a car that needed service at 500 miles in 80 years.

Yeah they don't want owners under the hood of "their" products. They want to convince everyone that there's magic under there - the car just magically moves by itself with no mechanical help! LOL

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I have decided to go with the Elite catch Can. I just have a few questions. What type of bracket would I need/choose for a spare battery box area mount when ordering off their website? and does it require me purchasing steel wool? I Cant remember if it does or not. Thanks in advance.

 

If you order our standard Catch Can, you can let the order default to the bracket and we'll send you the correct one. The bracket we supply can be used on the master cylinder or battery box area, it's the same bracket for both locations.

 

Thanks!

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If you order our standard Catch Can, you can let the order default to the bracket and we'll send you the correct one. The bracket we supply can be used on the master cylinder or battery box area, it's the same bracket for both locations.

 

Thanks!

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sounds good! That's what I ended up doing. I just didn't have the patients to wait for a response. And what about the filter material? Steel wool or no?
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sounds good! That's what I ended up doing. I just didn't have the patients to wait for a response. And what about the filter material? Steel wool or no?

 

 

Yes, our Catch Cans come with a Stainless Steel mesh in the diffuser chamber

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Yeah they don't want owners under the hood of "their" products. They want to convince everyone that there's magic under there - the car just magically moves by itself with no mechanical help! LOL

 

Yeah, I can see that...

 

But also, I've driven more than 1000 miles in one day. So, I'd be emptying the catch can twice a day on a trip like that? That's not a "system" in my opinion. That's a "hobby".

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sounds good! That's what I ended up doing. I just didn't have the patients to wait for a response. And what about the filter material? Steel wool or no?

From my understanding it has a stainless steel mesh in the top and it does not need to be replaced or need any regular maintenance. I've had my Elite can for about 6 months now and I think its a very nice product that really works well.

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07Softail Senior Enthusiast

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I emptied my can today and all i'm getting is water...I installed it at 1000 miles and I hit 3600 miles last week and I have had my truck a year in July and i don't get any oil when draining it.

 

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So anyone here running the catch can and also going to have the dealer do the cleaning treatment that is recommended at 15k miles (per my dealership anyway)?

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I wouldn't have a dealer do anything to my truck unless it's covered by warranty, but that's just me.

 

The warranty ship set sail for me along, long time ago.

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So anyone here running the catch can and also going to have the dealer do the cleaning treatment that is recommended at 15k miles (per my dealership anyway)?

I'm running a catch can and doing the BG induction service every 15k miles but I'm not having the dealer do it. I have a mechanic with his own shop that I take all my vehicles to. But yeah a catch can will help a lot but you can't stop 100% of everything getting through and dirtying up your engine so an induction service is necessary to truly keep the valves clean.

 

 

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But also, I've driven more than 1000 miles in one day. So, I'd be emptying the catch can twice a day on a trip like that? That's not a "system" in my opinion. That's a "hobby".

 

 

What? You don't want to be one of the "cool" people in here that posts pics of his catch can contents everytime he drains it? :D

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