You'll get a kick out of this...

[Dave G]

My yellow car's engine needs a ring job badly, but I don't feel like doing it. Lots of blow-by - so much that I'd loose a quart of oil in a 50 mile freeway trip, all of it sucked into the intake duct (and then drained into the air filter after stopping).

The solution: http://www.waverlystreet.com/temp/oilrecoveryunit.jpg

The hose that used to run from the valve cover to the air intake is gone. Instead a hose runs from the valve cover to a steel chamber stuffed full of coarse steel wool. It's set up in such a way that oil trapped in the steel wool will run back down into the valve cover by gravity. The blown-by air runs through the chamber, looses the oil on the way, and is vented to the outside through a tube running down to about floor level. Finally, a hose runs from the air intake to a "T" in the vent line, which sucks in most of the smelly gasses at idle.

It's working! I'm able to drive the car at freeway speeds again without loosing *any* oil.

[doylerl]

That is quite the unique setup you have there? Is that garden hose you are using?

[David88]

Thats an excellent idea and execution. Saves Oil, money and the atmosphere. Do you have to clean the plugs alot?

[ejp2fast]

very interesting setup..... would be a good solution in the interim for doing a ring job.

[Flyin4stroke]

All the work you put into this setup you could have at least started the rings lol.. Very cool idea and looks trick tell people it's your NOS bottle haha

[ejp2fast]

All the work you put into this setup you could have at least started the rings lol.. Very cool idea and looks trick tell people it's your NOS bottle haha

more lines/wires the better!!!

[Pu241]

Neat and clean solution!

You know if you find a good B6 we could swap that in faster than a rebuild.
Bet we can do it in under 24 hrs.
Would take some setup/prep time, but 2 people with a hoist properly prepared might do it under 12 hrs.

Skeeters_Keeper, whats your estimate, since you got quite a bit of experience at this, of pull a B3 with tranny (assume 5spd) transferring the tranny to the B6 and stuffing the assembly back into the engine bay.
Got to be easier than maneuvering the ATX with AC.

[thirdman]

CBOA FTW!!!!

(Cheap B*stards Of America)

[marinepolice03]

very interesting set up

[M3NTAL]

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[ejp2fast]

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excellent post.

[solatare]

nothing fail about that. it runs. no longer eats oil. and has greatly delayed larger outlays of cash.

all while still sipping gas at the rate it collects in your ashtray.

great success in my opinion.

[CharlieZ]

all while still sipping gas at the rate it collects in your ashtray.

Great window decal. "Runs on Ash Tray Change" :-)

[Festiva_tunner]

all while still sipping gas at the rate it collects in your ashtray.

If you have gas collecting in your ashtray I think you have worse problems than him going through oil lol

[Dave G]

I've replaced the picture of this after having accidentally deleted it some time ago:

The solution: http://www.waverlystreet.com/temp/oilrecoveryunit.jpg

Still working just fine, by the way :-)