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Installed Both Sides Ford Performance Catch Can at 21,000 miles

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Because the average person has a hard enough time with basic maintenance. Add in a catch can that they have to empty regularly and it will never be done. Easier to route to the intake and burn the excess as a "solution", thereby avoiding engine problems for full catch cans, or having people dumping them improperly and getting hit with fines as a company because your buyers are polluting the ground.
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Youre 100% correct. Bought passenger side for ecoboost ( heard it was dirty side on forums.) and get about 3 table spoons in 3000 miles. Then recently installed the drivers side 3000 miles ago and shit, when I opened it today it was full to the top! 2021 Ecoboost..
Is this something simple to do? Iā€™m not mechanically inclined but I bought a 2017 Ecoboost yesterday. It already has 62k miles on it but I donā€™t ā€œthinkā€ any modifications have been made. Iā€™ve been reading these forums and this topic is everywhere. Seems like a necessary investment but again, I donā€™t know which to get or how to do it. Would they do it at Ford? Or a mechanic?
 

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Is this something simple to do? Iā€™m not mechanically inclined but I bought a 2017 Ecoboost yesterday. It already has 62k miles on it but I donā€™t ā€œthinkā€ any modifications have been made. Iā€™ve been reading these forums and this topic is everywhere. Seems like a necessary investment but again, I donā€™t know which to get or how to do it. Would they do it at Ford? Or a mechanic?
Clean side (passengers) super simple. Dirty side faily difficult under engine on one hose but I would definitely try it.
 

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Youre 100% correct. Bought passenger side for ecoboost ( heard it was dirty side on forums.) and get about 3 table spoons in 3000 miles. Then recently installed the drivers side 3000 miles ago and shit, when I opened it today it was full to the top! 2021 Ecoboost..
something is wrong with that.

my dirty side, I got a shot glass in 10k miles.

clean side, didnt get even a drop, but I did get a CEL from the ford perf catch can, but ignore that. I would seriously look into why your clean side is getting destroyed by oil.
 

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My driver side Ford catch can after 8 months was full, but I do autocross the car 6-8 times a year. I personally think it is worth it and now drain it every 6 months. From under the car a simple install.
 

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I check mine about every two weeks when I check the oil. I've never let mine go passed that. My JLT gets a little less than a quarter full every two weeks. Maybe 500 miles.
 

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I check mine about every two weeks when I check the oil. I've never let mine go passed that. My JLT gets a little less than a quarter full every two weeks. Maybe 500 miles.
I also have a JLT (drivers side if anyone cares) after 5000 miles its over 75% full.

I change my oil / general maintenance every 5k so its no big deal to empty it...but it is a lot of oil...
 

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Today I installed the Ford Performance oil seperators on both the drivers and passanger sides. The drivers side is a struggle because of the hose location and the white clips that hold the hose on the nipples. I broke both clips to get the hose off, oops. The passanger side was easy. The car has 40 miles on it and this is the first mod.

I got a look at the active exhaust while I was under the car. The pipe between the turbo and cat converter is around 3". I thought sweet when I first saw it because I hoped the whole system would be like that. However out the cat the pipe is smaller than 3" and it gets necked down from there, bummer.
 

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My car has finally gone 1,000 miles so I changed the oil and filter. I checked the air oil seperators. Just like FreePenguin stated would be, nothing in the passenger side and I got around an ounce of oil from the drivers side.

So I will say that if you want to keep those intake valves cleaner longer an air oil seperator is a probally a good idea.
 

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My car has finally gone 1,000 miles so I changed the oil and filter. I checked the air oil seperators. Just like FreePenguin stated would be, nothing in the passenger side and I got around an ounce of oil from the drivers side.

So I will say that if you want to keep those intake valves cleaner longer an air oil seperator is a probally a good idea.
Correct ! You should never have oil in the clean side can. It is the PCV system air intake.
 

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Correct ! You should never have oil in the clean side can. It is the PCV system air intake.
You are correct. However if/when the solenoid valve in the line fails and the engine is under boost the clean side seperator will catch the oil before it backflows into the compressor inlet pipe.
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