What separates this can from the others available ? And IMO the brass fittings do not "add a modern look", in reality it adds a bit of "my home project" look to it.
There is a two chamber design inside the Catch can that helps Catch the Oil vapors. As for the brass fittings, the problem is there are not many fittings that can with stand the amount of engine heat that comes from the engine bay or the the break down of the material due to the oil being consistently being in contact with it. There are some nickel plated and chrome plated brass fittings out there but they tend to get pricey real quick...
Our valve covers are plastic. Filter boxes, ect. I doubt heat will be an issue for any part in that area.
The Can is unscrewed from the bottom. This is also something that is concerning us .We are looking to fab up a billet bracket. Thanks for that. We really do take pride in how our product looks as well as how well it works We have also been looking into that,The techs and mechanics we have spoke to do not agree with blocking it off. Thats why we are looking into a dual catch Can set up.
Different type of materials bud. We have already tried different fittings "Plastic/composite on the other platforms we make these for and they have failed miserably
Happen to have a cut away to see how this top and bottom baffling works? And maybe a vid of how you empty it from the bottom? Thx.
here is a vid i made a lill after install that i just uploaded to youtube. please for give the vid i know i suck at this but the OCC works :biggrin5: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSxV9D98CCU]YouTube - Billet Technologies Mini Cooper S R56 passenger side set up prototype[/ame]
I did some temperature testing in mine after a 1 hour drive on the autobahn. Temp at the fire wall 98deg, temp on my BSH catch can 96deg, valve cover 98deg, temp at the turbo Holy$hit! LOL The fire wall area one needs to be good to a little over 100deg so any metal fittings like aluminum would work without a problem.
In my "former" life, I worked for a large plastics company. One of the materials we delt with was a modified PPO material made by GE called Noryl EN265. One of it's uses was for manifolds. It has a continuous service temperature of 250F.
From what I've seen, when there are two oil catch cans, they aren't mounted at the same place. So, the alarm mounting tab only has to support one catch can. Dave
The engine temps in the other applications were in the 250-300* range. And the fittings that were affordable were good to the 250* range. Being these cans are aluminum "Great heat conductor" and dissipates rather quickly as well. The cans them selves will see higher then 98*. The consistent cooling and heating of the fittings may have contributed to those fitting failures as well. Who knows. :confused5: After a few months the fittings we were using began to fail. You can only imagine the exchange rate we had to go through. Im sorry folks im not going through that again. Our cans come with Brass fittings. They are 3/8" and 1/2" hose. So folks are more then welcome swap them out at their convenience. However I may be willing to offer black composite/plastic fittings rated to 250* but those would be at the buyers risk. I hope you understand as I've already been whooped once and don't want to get whooped again Thanks again for your interest.. I will have some pics up later today of the actual design. Thanks guys/gals.