----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Fox" <v4gr@rcn.com>
To: "drmayf" <drmayf@mayfco.com>; "LSR" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: Redooing the Evac System
> When Al put a pan evac pump on the SBC in his Jr. Fuel car it sucked oil
> like mad. Then he went to double lip crankshaft seals and things became
> much less smoky RF
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "drmayf" <drmayf@mayfco.com>
> To: "LSR" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 4:51 PM
> Subject: Redooing the Evac System
>
>
>> Today I finished relocating the crankcase evac system I had made up last
>> year. I am using the Moroso kit with the doohickeys that mount in the
>> exhausp pipes to provide the suction via venturi located at the pipe. I
>> had plumbed 2 of th e"suckers" into one breather cap. That cap was
>> located on the home made oill filler tune which bolted to the old ford
>> mechanical fuel pump boss. I can see that it was working, maybe too well
>> because ther is oil in the clear hose I had installed so I could see the
>> action. I removed that oil filler thingy and blocked the old fuel pump
>> boss with a plate. I relocated the breather cap, now 2 of them, top the
>> valve covers with proper baffling in the valve cover. In doing the refit,
>> I had to remove the passenger side down pipe. But surprise, it was really
>> sootybut not oily at the turbo connection. At the end of the down pipe,
>> which protrudes throughmy air dam, it is both sooty and Oily. Theonly
>> thing in between on that particular pipe is the WB O2 sensor and the evac
>> venturi. The O2 sensor ie above the venturi so it shouldn't haave g0otten
>> oile dup.. sooty maybe but not oiled. I am hoping the source of my
>> smokiness at WOS was the evac system sucking some oil and putting it into
>> the really hot exhaust stream. Hoping...
>>
>> mayf
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