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Old 09-17-2012, 01:56 PM
mikethezipper mikethezipper is offline
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Ok I guess that was it

I'm guessing charmalu was dead on as to what had happened.
I have it vented to atmosphere right now, I plugged up the line to the turbo, and... no more smoke? I'm guessing what what happening was that all the smoke I was seeing is what was left over after the initial "plugging" of the vcv, where there was still oil left over in the wrong places and it was burning off. So.. how bad was that for the engine?
I'm going to try when I get off work to send it straight to the turbo and see if I still get all that white smoke. I guess if I do that means I'm getting an amazing amount of blowby?

The air filter that I've got on there is the Spectre cone air filter available from autozone, its about a foot long. I don't think it's a good filter, but I thought it would be comparable, and wouldn't let in as much crap as the K&N Filter. If this isn't true, then I could easily change it to the paper FRAM ones I've seen on here. I don't want to go back to stock because I like to see my engine and because I am absoluetly tired of replacing the stupid brackets and their rubber mounts. I was never under the illusion that it would give me "performance" gains I just wanted it to clear up the engine bay. BTW, I am very proud of my oil seperator, mostly because I'm trying to convince myself it was worth the time I spent on it. I got an aluminum water bottle from the Dollar Tree, filled the bottom half with stainless wool, and at the top I have a cotton air filter. I have the input at the bottom under the thought that as the gasses rose up they would cool down and precipitate oil. I don't know if that's how it really works though.
Sorry, no pics for now because I don't have a camera at work.
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