auralisRS

Hi Guys
Has anyone else who has fitted an after market engine breather system suffered from blocking pipes, with moisture/white shite. This has happened twice now and subject to this oil is getting past turbo seals, causing embarrassing Vauxhall Cavalier tail smoke.

THE RADMAN

iTrader: (2)

nope,what size pipework are u using? presume its plumbed in correctly?

rapidcossie

have never heard of the pipes blocking?

Gatecrasher

dont mean to hijack your thread but i took my hoses off of my seperator and see this white gunk allmost had a fit at first wondering why it was there!! anyway my question is with the top air return pipe shitting out white crap back down the pipe to the trumpet side of the airfilter will this be ok recirculating back into the turbo/engine, the white shitty gunk that is?

Again sorry for the hijacking and no its never happend to me as iver only just got the car

tim10_10

iTrader: (1)

I had this on a rs turbo before, couldnt work out why it was doing it but I changed to a bailey breather and was ok after. What sort of breather are you using?

MONSTER

Sounds like condensation to me, do you do many miles?

It could also be a sign of headgasket failure but its more than likely condensation.

redrsmk5

Does your car live outside like mine????? because i have this in mine on the top pipe of the mirror image tank.It is definitely condensation on mine as the car lives outside and has hardly moved in months. Fortunately i dont have a return to the air filter with the new setup.

auralisRS

Yes it lives outside, and it is condensation, if the pipe runs are too long, then condensation does form and emulifies with the oil. It is common with a car that doesn't warm up much, and head gasket, (not that).
I have a can on the right turret, a breather from the original place under the inlet and an extra one from under the exhaust manifold. Both these feed the can. Then I have a pipe at the bottom of this can feeding a return to the original place. And on the top a vent to atmosphere. The whole thing woks like crap, ever since I put it on there, I have had oil feeding back from my turbo problems, after a while.

So the crank isn't venting, hence the oil return tries to find another way out, like through the turbo, even had oil spray coming out the dump valve.

Going to put the original back on, unless someone pursuades me otherwise.

redrsmk5

Doesnt sound good mate!

Im wondering why yours vents to atmosphere from the top? unless the cans are different from the mirror image tanks then im sure it should vent to atmosphere under the car?

You got any good tuners/garages near you that could help you out?

auralisRS

it vents out the top, but runs from there under the car...