Krank Vent replacments

[Kracka]

Kracka Vents!!!

As some of you know, I'm a big fan of Krank Vents since I have seen many benefits in using them both from my personal use and reviews written by others. They are a great product, but a tad ridiculous at $110. Rather than suck it up and drop the cash I decided to source my own that meet all the proper specs!

Benefits I have personally experienced:

Crankcase vacuum (basically suctions the oil dipstick in)
Smoother idle
Increased MPG
Increased throttle response
and much less oil consumption (due to the piston rings sealing better)

Dyno-tests are also showing a 3whp gain on N/A S2000's and up to 20whp on turbocharged S2000's. These work the same way on all cars, N/A or FI. These should help to eliminate some minor oil seepage/leaks such as the oil cap, valve cover gasket, etc. along with preventing the dipstick from popping out under boost. Long story short, these basically prevent air from entering the crankcase from a leaky PCV valve or the breather port.

I'm running a set on my car and so far they are behaving exactly as I expected. One goes between the PCV valve and intake manifold, and the other goes between the valve cover breather port and your intake/breather filter, catch can, etc.

Here are a few pictures:

http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/data/547/IMGP1147.JPG

http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/data/547/IMGP1151.JPG

[scheides]

Chris has been raving about these G-D krank vents to me forever, and when he told me he found a comparable solution I told him to give me some or I would beat his ass! :)

Seriously though, I have had crap leaking out of my valve-cover drain hose that goes to the factory intake pipe for over a year now, and I decided it was time to take care of it. I got me a pair of these and a nice fancy ebay oil catch can and with a little bit of hose from craig at my local o'riely I was good to go.

Install was simple, pretty obvious here, just scored some 3/8 hose, 1/2 inch might be better for the big side...
http://www.scheides.com/albums/aquamist/IMG_5638.sized.jpg

See all of the crap on my lower radiator pipe? YUCK!
http://www.scheides.com/albums/aquamist/IMG_5639.sized.jpg

Wonder what was coming out of there? Here ya go!
http://www.scheides.com/albums/aquamist/IMG_5645.sized.jpg

I ran the two valve cover outlets into a 3/8" brass T-fitting and then into one hose into my catch can:
http://www.scheides.com/albums/aquamist/IMG_5646.sized.jpg

Catch can has a small filter I picked up at checker, I may also fill it with some steel wool.

http://www.scheides.com/albums/evo8/IMG_0179.sized.jpg

http://www.scheides.com/albums/evo8/IMG_0180.sized.jpg

[Kracka]

Now we just need to get a vacuum source to that can, Scheides!

[Andrew7dg]

http://www.autoshop101.com/forms/h63.pdf

I am just posting this for people wondering how the PCV valve works. It provides good basic info about the system (even if it is Toyota).

After reading this something came to my attention

"A plugged crankcase breather hose may cause the engine to consume oil because of the increased level of crankcase vacuum."

It doesn't go into detail as to why but wondering if the check valve by the breather hose is really necessary?

I highly recommend the check valve (with a catch can!) by the PCV valve as the PCV valve tend to leak and cause most of the symptoms that you have listed.

Also if you haven't figured it out by the article, you still need a working PCV valve in the car (or should have one)

[blageo23]

So your not going to tell us where you got them?

[turbotalon1g]

I am confused.

[Kracka]

"A plugged crankcase breather hose may cause the engine to consume oil because of the increased level of crankcase vacuum."


Creating a vacuum is the purpose of these things; if anything, they'll reduce oil consumption, not increase it. A plugged breather hose would cause a crankcase vacuum in certain circumstances, but also crankcase pressure in others. I'm guessing the increased oil consumption is from the pressure periods.

[asshanson]

So whats the price?

[Kracka]

So whats the price?

If someone was interested in getting a set they could PM me since I have a few extras laying around my apt, but these will mainly be just for myself and a few others.

[A//// Guy]

So who actually makes these? What was their initial use for? Or did you design and make these yourself?