<div dir="ltr"><div>To elaborate, </div><div>Perhaps my description left out the important detail.</div><div>There is an additional tube that comes off the top of that tank which I described already.</div><div>That goes to an air vented can way down below. </div><div>I suppose that one could contain undesirable oil.</div><div>But there is never anything in there.</div><div>I should have mentioned that in both of my previous posts.</div><div>Does that sound better Henry?</div><div>Jason Ostrowski</div><div>Friendly Ghost Racing</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Jason Ostrowski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jason@multivintage.com" target="_blank">jason@multivintage.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hmm. Interesting.</div><div>I'm actually in the process of trying to give the Zippy Car more venting at the top of the rockers and was going to copy the way I have it on the yellow car.</div><div>I have a sealed tube that exits at the front of the valve cover and wraps around the back to the other side where there is a tank (with a foam filter inside) mounted to the where the stock fuel pump would go.</div><div>So I supposed it flowed towards below the back end of the camshaft </div><div>It never occurred to me that the oil could get wet or milky.</div><div>This has seemed to work well???</div><div>I can't say I have seen any evidence of moisture or poor oil color inside the tank. .</div><div>Your comments have me now wondering if there may be a better way.</div><div>I'm willing to try something different so I would be interest in more info on the topic of valve cover venting on the 6 Cylinder.</div><div>Thanks!</div><span><div>Jason Ostrowski</div><div>Friendly Ghost Racing</div></span><div>1969 Triumph GT6+ Racecars</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Yellow04 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yellow04@tr4racer.com" target="_blank">yellow04@tr4racer.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">I'm from the school of thought that if oil gets blown out of the engine, it's milky, full of condensation, and has no business going back into my motor! If you are putting enough oil on the catch tank that you NEED to drain it back into the motor, something is not right.<br>
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Brian, one cup of oil in the catch tank after running a Mosport weekend is not a lot of oil. Think of the amount of time you had that throttle at WFO over the course of the weekend... That's the beauty of Mosport!<br>
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> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: Jason Ostrowski<br>
> Subject: Re: [Fot] crankcase vent catch can<br>
><br>
> Brian,<br>
> I have my vent catch tank set-up designed to allow the "vented oil" from the<br>
> catch can to gravity feed back down into the main oil galley. There are a few<br>
> different ways to do that and it works good. It makes the venting more<br>
> effective due to the circular flow and the oil is not lost, never needs to be<br>
> drained and stays in the motor to be used.<br>
> Good luck.<br>
> Jason Ostrowski<br>
> Friendly Ghost Racing<br>
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