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(Message started by: cossieguy on Dec 4^th, 2006, 4:46pm)

Title: Have I missed something important! You bet i have!
Post by cossieguy on Dec 4^th, 2006, 4:46pm

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.

Title: Re: Have I missed something important!
Post by TiberiuS on Dec 4^th, 2006, 5:47pm

Imagine your Granny using her trusty old Hoover Junior without a dustbag, this is my take on it ;)

Title: Re: Have I missed something important!
Post by cossieguy on Dec 4^th, 2006, 6:27pm

Have just ordered an inline filter ;)
Guy.

Title: Re: Have I missed something important!
Post by Octavian_P on Dec 6^th, 2006, 12:48am

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 ;D. Imagine that the mpg went up and power increase was huge !!!

Title: Re: Have I missed something important!
Post by cossieguy on Dec 6^th, 2006, 7:50am

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.

Title: Re: Have I missed something important!
Post by Nunnspoet on Dec 6^th, 2006, 8:22am

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

Title: Re: Have I missed something important!
Post by Highlander on Dec 6^th, 2006, 10:20am

I just used a bit of foam in mine, how much do Ford take for this i wonder? ;)

Title: Re: Have I missed something important!
Post by Dave on Dec 6^th, 2006, 10:26am

£1.38 (as at December 2004) ;D

Title: Re: Have I missed something important!
Post by Highlander on Dec 6^th, 2006, 10:29am

I wonder what the profit margin is on that! ;)

Title: Re: Have I missed something important!
Post by Dave on Dec 6^th, 2006, 10:32am

;D In fairness on the next visit they gave me a new idle valve gasket for free. Then again I had just bought the valve!

Title: Re: Have I missed something important!
Post by cossieguy on Dec 6^th, 2006, 9:21pm

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 :o 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 :-/
Guy.