$16 catch can

Chrysler, amongst many other manufactures have never really had a good solution for their PCV systems, usually resulting in oil sludge building up in the intakes. As my new dodge has a very sensitive knock retard computer and 93 octane is expensive (not to mention I like to tinker) I decided to put a catch can on the PCV system but did not want to spend $100 for a blingy can.

So I bought a Chinese knock off from e-bay for $16 and figured "how bad could it be?" The answer is; pretty bad, but still salvageable.

I bought one like this ebay

, but there are other variants in different collors by different manufactures. Important part being it was shipped to my door from the other side of the world for $16 total.

What arrived was a disappointment. I have purchased a lot of knock-off Chinese stuff and am never impressed with the quality, but this was borderline terrible. It did not pass the water-leak test on multiple points. The metal looked like it wanted to be aluminum, but I doubt there is much Al in there. The "brass" corroded from tap water over night, the "powder coat" was poorly sprayed paint and most importantly the threads were stripped from over-tightening. There are also multiple gouges which appear as though it was machined by a 5year old with a angle grinder, sadly that is probably reality

One of the adapters was not drilled out

So I added some brillo pads (stainless steel to up the metal content...) or, to condense the oil vapor.

sealed everything up with RTV and ran it for a few months. The neato oil level indicator on the side started leaking, not at the quick connect as I would suspect, but at the swivel joint. So I removed it and put in a plug and drain I had laying around. Now it works pretty well. It's probably a $20 catch can, and I found out you can not "rip" strings of SS brillo as it is razor sharp and will simply cut through you, so total cost includes blood and tears.

The end.

I knew that band-aid in the early pictures had to have been caused by that beastly thing.
I think I personally would have used a water bottle, but I do not have a 2012 Challenger. and it least it looks decent in the engine bay, and works halfway decently.

Yeah a gatorade bottle works great in a VTA configuration, I ran one for years Also a popular aftermarket coolant overflow tank.

I picked up one of these at my local Lowes to try and achieve the same result:

$13 + $6 for two fittings. still getting it all together while finishing a head swap on my Hyundai - curious to see if it actually works. it is also from china, as are the fittings from the local Ace Hardware.

Jegs - $17

The jegs one doesn't look bad, I only checked summit and they were pricier. I can't imagine a water bottle would hold up to vacuum under high.heat. I like the air compressor catch.cans, I have one on.... My air.compressor, but.don't dig the looks :-)

daytonaer wrote: The jegs one doesn't look bad, I only checked summit and they were pricier. I can't imagine a water bottle would hold up to vacuum under high.heat. I like the air compressor catch.cans, I have one on.... My air.compressor, but.don't dig the looks :-)

As we found out on our Chump CSX, they don't. :(

They do make aluminum water bottles. Those seem to be pretty strong. Wal-mart clearances off seasonal ones all the time, often for $1 each.

I've got the same catch can I'm using for coolant overflow inverted from what is shown in OP's post. Was shocked shocked at the lousy build quality, but made do. The holes in the banjo must be tiny, because it takes forever to purge an air bubble. The main reason I wanted this type is so I could easily see the fluid level in the can.

I've had the same gatorade bottle installed on my Mini's firewall for the crankcase vent catch can for the past 6 or 7 years. I put it there are a temporary solution.

I bought one of those Ebay catch cans for my 2002, but never installed it.

Derick Freese wrote: They do make aluminum water bottles. Those seem to be pretty strong. Wal-mart clearances off seasonal ones all the time, often for $1 each.

That's what I used. Bought one from the dollar store, drilled the top and epoxied in 2 pieces of steel tubing. One goes about 3/4 of the way down, and one is at the top. Worked great.

That cheap Jeg's one is plastic. As are the cheap Summit cans. I hate them.

I have an ebay coolant overflow tank on the MX6. It leaked a little bit from the clear tube thing on the outside level indicator. Threw some RTV on it and all is well.