Purelude

My car smells like oil after long drives because oil is getting out of the crankcase breather (those mini k&N filters). Supposedly they're bad anyway, so i wanted to seal it up just like on a NA car.

I have an hks filter attached directly to the turbo, so i have no intake pipe. The prelude drag gen2's don't offer enough room to put a pipe in there.

I'm wondering if my idea will work.

I think the crankcase is about a 1/4" nipple. So if i drilled a 1/4" size hole into the back of the hks mushroom filter, and somehow managed to secure a 1/4" tee into that hole, could i then attach a rubber hose from there to the crankcase?

Would this work ok? or am i asking for trouble?

it is an $80 filter...


this is where i got the idea. http://webngames.com/zone/themot/intake.htm



[Modified by Purelude, 8:34 PM 6/22/2001]

Slurp56

Dont most people simply use like an oil catch can and the route it back through your EGR(?) system? think greddy makes a nice chrome can for ~60 bucks. I havent done this, just know a few people who have re-routed it. good luck.

Seraph0

Sounds like it would work. I kind of did the same thing. I drilled a hole in the pre-turbo piping and NPT tapped it. Then screwed in a fitting, which I attached a rubber hose to the valve cover.

Make sure to use a simple fuel filter inline with the hose so it gets some of the oil out and it wont oil up the turbo compressor blades.

Purelude

which kind of fuel filter should i use? do you have pics of your setup?