this car has to haul serious ***! but what is that thing connected to the blue hose above the intake?

 

 

it's the oil overflow catch can (required to use by series)...on the stock engines (at least the b-series) the breather hose goes to the intake hose..the "theory" here is that, the air that would be sucked by the crankcase from the intake hose/pipe would be used strictly for intake (more air=more power).

by having the valvecover/crankcase have it's own breather (blue hose and canister) if for some reason oil comes back up the wrong way it'll go to the catchcan

hth
jmeris

 

to explain a bit further, the stock system uses a hose from the crankcase exit to the intake manifold plenum. what happens is oil gets into the crankcase then pulled into the IM and introduced to the valves and combustion chambers...it gets burnt with fuel and thrown out the back. the catch can holds any oil blow by so it doesn't coat your valves or get into the combustion chamber and coat those parts. it keeps your engine cleaner.

 

Yeah I hear you. I was there to and it didnt do that well. Their DC2's were tearing it up. Matter of fact it won now that I think about it. In october at least

 

Is it just me or does the housing for the air filter look very small? The Realtime DC2's had a very large airbox if I recall.

 

yeah, it looks like they use just a regular size K&N filter. whereas the DC2's used the NSX airbox and filter