My first FI build.

[robvas]

It's cold and you find water and oil in your catch can. That's what it's supposed to do.

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[Bob Lob Law]

High humidity and low temps can cause this. You get a ton of condensation as a result, however, this can also indicate a blown head gasket.

What does the underside of your oil fill cap look like?

I had to run back out and look. It's clean oil, not a spot of the froth. Hopefully it's just high humidity and the can doing it's job! It kind of freaked me out! LOL

 

[80FoxCoupe]

It's cold and you find water and oil in your catch can. That's what it's supposed to do.

Yup not uncommon when it's cold out. It will do it more when you let the car warm up in the driveway. Water/fuel/oil mix.

 

[Bob Lob Law]

Yup not uncommon when it's cold out. It will do it more when you let the car warm up in the driveway. Water/fuel/oil mix.

I always let the car idle up to temp in the driveway.

 

[SheepDog]

I had to run back out and look. It's clean oil, not a spot of the froth. Hopefully it's just high humidity and the can doing it's job! It kind of freaked me out! LOL

Have you been taking a lot of short trips? Just bringing the car up to "temp" generally won't get the oil hot enough to vaporize the water in the system. The oil needs to exceed the boiling point of water (212 degrees F at sea level, 202 where I am) to boil off the water

 

[Bob Lob Law]

Yeah, I take a few short trips around town regularly.

 

[Adam the Lighting Guy]

Goal for now is just a fast fun street car(somewhat reliable) for a daily. Shooting for 600whp on 91 to start with room to grow a little on a 93 only tune and pully. In a couple of years I'll make it a toy and put a fuel system on it as E85 is everywhere around here. Using a BAP for now, but, will probably go with a fuel system like EngineerMike, Wengerd or a KPM. I'm not going to be doing a return fuel system. I think that 600-680whp will hold me over for a while. I was trying to explain it to the wife last night that I'm looking for a lot more acceleration, more like my old ZX14. That this stage is NOT it! But, the E85 stage is getting closer.

I too had a ZX-14, an 08'. It wad a fast Couch for sure. [email protected] at stock wheelbase.

 

[Bob Lob Law]

I too had a ZX-14, an 08'. It wad a fast Couch for sure. [email protected] at stock wheelbase.

It's literally the only thing that I have ever regretted selling! I want another one day!

 

[John S]

this is what I found. It came from the drivers side. WTF? It's been cold her like 20* F in the mornings. Bad gas? Car runs fine and doesn't seem to have lost any coolant.

Ahh, the wonders of winter driving. Before the days of PCV systems, cars had draft tubes and the fumes would dump into the atmosphere under the car. No issues in the summer but, In the winter, the inside of the "cold" tube looked like creamy chocolate milk from all the condensation. Pretty nasty looking, isn't it.

 

[Wolfys11]

Thats very normal in winer for catch cans, thats y they recommend in the fine print to take them out in cold weather

The condensation in the can causes it, and typically wintertime u gotta empty the catchcan way more often because of the water. It rarely evaportates as well as it doesnt get hot enough, if it did then the oil air seperator wouldnt work well

 

[Bob Lob Law]

Got the KOOKs installed!

 

[robvas]

Off road? What's the rest of the exhaust going to look like?

 

[eisenhauer01]

Nice! What cat-back system are you running?

 

[Bob Lob Law]

Off road mid pipes, H pipe, and factory Active exhaust.

 

[2015 Silver GT]

Post up a video when you can.

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