RIPP Supercharger gets... RIPPED APART!

[JeepLab]

The Intercooler -

I took the intercooler out and stood it up in a home depot bucket. I wanted to see how much oil seeps out. I left it there for maybe 40 min. I got maybe a few teaspoons of oil.





Clean out is really easy. I sealed one side of the intercooler with a trash bag and a pipe clamp, and poured in some gasoline. Shook it up, let the gas get in all the corners, and poured it out. Came out black the first time.





I did it about 3 more times, the last two looked like clean gas on the way out.

[Gunner]

Just a thought Ross. But the catch can should have a drain back path that is gravity fed back to the crankcase. Otherwise it just continues to fill every time you punch it. Another words the can should be mounted higher than the hose feeding it. Then the oil will be able to drain back when the boost is not pushing air to the intake side. Does that make sense. Or did I just confuse you.

[bo9roadking]

Thanks to gbaumann's great idea, I did my catch can install today. I haven't driven it yet, but I'm sure it will be better. I've put about 1000 miles on my Magnuson and noticed oil in the hoses when I took them off and replaced them with new hoses and the catch can.

I'm hoping that the intercooler will clean itself out over time now that little to no oil should be going through it. I used gbaumann's example from his thread, but I mounted the can to my battery tray instead of in the corner near the brake master cylinder to keep the hoses as short as possible.

[2k13jk]

I recomend putting hose clamps on those lines running to the catch can the slighest vacuum leak that has will cause your jeep to run weird

[JeepLab]

The Billet Technology guys told me that it didn't matter about weather the can was mounted above or below anything.

Does anyone know why you would mount it higher or lower?

[UselessPickles]

If it's mounted higher so that the hose from the valve cover runs uphill to the can, then any oil that condenses on the walls of that hose would tend to run downhill back into the valve cover. If the catch can is low, that oil would tend to run downhill into the can.

I think the difference would be very small and not worth going through extra effort to mount the can higher.

[Gunner]

I was thinking of something like this. With a drain back capability. If not by using a 3rd line then placing the can higher will allow the oil to drain back. The reason for the drain back is to reduce the amount of oil the air has to go thru to get to the intake. It might be overkill but this is the kind of setups that I use to use.
http://www.lingenfelter.com/mm5/merc...4#.VGF08ktN2f0

[UselessPickles]

I think the reason for the drain back has nothing to do with efficiency/effectiveness of the catch can. It's simply so that the catch can does not need to be emptied. This is "OEM style" because the average person buying a new car doesn't want to deal with emptying oil catch cans in addition to oil changes. It would be a nifty setup if you had an easy/convenient place to run the drain hose to, but probably not worthwhile if it requires significant modifications to make it work.

Also the drain back feature on this would be completely different than simply mounting a standard catch can up high. The high mounting position will only cause oil in the hose that didn't yet make it to the can to drain back into the engine. The special drain back can allows all captured oil in the can to immediately drain back into the engine, minimizing overall oil level loss over time.

[Gunner]

Yup what he said. It is to keep oil from building up in there can.

[Yoinkers]

They should give the cans with the Superchargers. Its 100 bucks. Your spending 6k. For no other reason, but to make sure that the tune is working with reliable air flowing thru.

Anyone with a tune should toss a can in the kit.