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cossieguy
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Have I missed something important! You bet i have!
« on: Dec 4th, 2006, 4:46pm » |
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In a bored state started surfing about my Pipercross Viper kit and cleaning it etc, stumbled onto a thread about the crankcase breather pipe and changing its filter. Have I been silly just plugging my crankcase breather pipe stright into the top of my viper kit without fitting some sort of inline filter? Could this affect the idle of the car ie nasty stuff coming from the top of the engine and being fed straight back into the induction route for the car?
Guy.
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TiberiuS
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Re: Have I missed something important!
« Reply #1 on: Dec 4th, 2006, 5:47pm » |
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Imagine your Granny using her trusty old Hoover Junior without a dustbag, this is my take on it 
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cossieguy
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Re: Have I missed something important!
« Reply #2 on: Dec 4th, 2006, 6:27pm » |
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Have just ordered an inline filter
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Re: Have I missed something important!
« Reply #3 on: Dec 6th, 2006, 12:48am » |
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It's a must have, in my cossie the stdandard filter for the crackcase is made of a sponge. That thing melted away in engine oil, and all the vapors where getting on the airfilter, which was back as a black scorpio in a black night  . Imagine that the mpg went up and power increase was huge !!!
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cossieguy
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Re: Have I missed something important!
« Reply #4 on: Dec 6th, 2006, 7:50am » |
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Cheers, the in line filter should be here soon, i'm going to fit that clean my Viper kit,MAF really not confident about trying to clean throttle body so will leave that  Will then see if my idle problems/poor mpg settle.
Guy.
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Re: Have I missed something important!
« Reply #5 on: Dec 6th, 2006, 8:22am » |
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I am assuming that the filter is in the box containing the air filter, if so then mine had also "melted" so I replaced it with a bit of cut to size sponge. Never thought of trying to buy one. Should I have bought one?
Mike
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Re: Have I missed something important!
« Reply #6 on: Dec 6th, 2006, 10:20am » |
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I just used a bit of foam in mine, how much do Ford take for this i wonder?
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Dave
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Re: Have I missed something important!
« Reply #7 on: Dec 6th, 2006, 10:26am » |
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£1.38 (as at December 2004)
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Re: Have I missed something important!
« Reply #8 on: Dec 6th, 2006, 10:29am » |
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I wonder what the profit margin is on that!
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on Oct 17th, 2011, 12:35pm, Simmo wrote:| I give up ! Too much for an old boy! |
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Dave
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Re: Have I missed something important!
« Reply #9 on: Dec 6th, 2006, 10:32am » |
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In fairness on the next visit they gave me a new idle valve gasket for free. Then again I had just bought the valve!
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cossieguy
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Re: Have I missed something important!
« Reply #10 on: Dec 6th, 2006, 9:21pm » |
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Have fitted the inline crankcase filter and cleaned the Viper kit. Running very well now. By the way, the way the viper is set up the crankcase pipe goes in after the filter  So by my own stupidity/ignorance i've been pumping the rubbish going down the crankcase breather straight into the engine unfiltered for several months now Might give it a going over with 10k boost to give the innards a good clean out as god knows what its like 
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