Should the car die straight away

 

Normally. If the car has a closed breather system then yeah, it should die as you are introducing a massive air leak into the engine.

 

 

Yeah mine dies soon as you lift the cap. BLURRRRRRRRRRRRRR down she goes

 

mine too

 

There was a thread on this last week in here mate if you missed it ? Do a search, as there is prob some more info on it.

 

Like this

http://photobucket.com/albums/v704/b...capandy002.flv

I was asking a mates car doesnt do it

 

Looks to be right to me
Didn't realise photobucket would let you host vids now. You on a paid account ??

 

Yes

 

Neither does mine, but I have an open breather system. Chances are your mate has a blocked breather pipe or something like that, worst case is it is knackered.

 

Seems normal to me

 

every one ive had or worked on has either died or ran really rough as a rule i walk away from 1s that dont and they've still got original breather system

 

Terrible wind up merchant you are

 

my last 3 died as soon as it was removed

 

mine used to die if you took the cap of till the engine went bang. (due to well over 30psi of boost)
now ive rebuilt the engine it runs fine if you take off the cap. does this meen i've got somthing wrong somewhere?

it's still running the standard breather system.

 

Definately doesn't sound right........

 

It means its runing perfect

 

 

Whoooooooooooooooooops

Read it wrong

 

You have a problems mate

 

I was going to say lol................but i didn't wana start a raging battle

 

got to take the head off to sort out a leaky core plug thing so i'll check it all out when i do that.
i'm just happy it runs. i didn't know a thing about building engines till i built this one.

 

i didn't know a thing about building engines till i built this one.[/quote]

hmmmmm,

 

i cant have done to bad. its been running ok for about 5 years now.
till it started pissing water out the side of the head that is.

 

If the cars has a standard breather system, the filter may be clogged if it doesn't die when you lift the cap.

 

They're only about £6 or £7 last time I bought one. Don't bother trying to open up the existing one and clean it out...more hassle than it's worth. Replace it, nice cheap and easy

 

Everyone does realise its better to set the car up to run with the breather cap off don't they??

I.E. run a open breather system rather than a closed one

 

Also serviceable items anyway which a lot of people don't realise, 40,000miles i believe, they start to break down over time and don't actually do the job theyre meant to.