Sr20det pcv valve install

Also run a line from the valve cover to catch can,maybe add one more from valve cover. Of course what I plan on doing is for "off-road use only" :roll" What do you guys think? I haven't had any issues with it. I still have mine routed into the intake runners like stock. Yes it will work in the KA.

It is the same threads. Think twice and read this: viewtopic. Post by Kfred » Wed Aug 20, pm I bought an aftermarket pcv valve for my ka when i rebuilt my motor. I put one end of a vacuum line on the pcv valve and the other on my air compressor nozzle. It held enough pressure to balloon a standard vacuum hose.

And after the test i was still able to suck air through it easily. The pcv valve was from autozone, nothing special. I think it was made by deausch filters or something. When the guy did that test with the ka and sr pcv, i think he used a faulty ka pcv. Post by celica3sgte94 » Thu Aug 21, pm where did you guys get the sr pcv valve at? The best best is to not run the check valve and run a "draft tube".

This tube is just a piece of hose that runs from the fitting where the PCV used to be, to the bottom of the motor. The draft of the air will create enough vacuum to scavenge the oil vapors and positive pressure out. If you run it into the downpipe, there will be way too much vacuum and it will actually hurt he overall pressure system inside the motor and can suck power and or cause more blow-by.

I came to these conclusions from consulting factory service manuals and professional engineers and race teams. Post by twastheglow » Thu Aug 21, pm If I've read correctly, the pcv valve connects to a hose that runs to the valve cover. Is that correct? Post by EstoMax » Thu Aug 21, pm twastheglow wrote: If I've read correctly, the pcv valve connects to a hose that runs to the valve cover.

Post by twastheglow » Thu Aug 21, pm EstoMax wrote: nope, the pcv valve is under the intake manifold, and connects the lower front cover to the tubes that come from under the intake manifold. Post by twastheglow » Thu Aug 21, pm Or better yet, let me ask you this, when I installed my turbo, the charcoal canister, and "little black box thing" over by it got removed. I also capped all 4 of those vacuum lines I was just talking about.

Is any of this going to affect my pcv? Post by EstoMax » Thu Aug 21, pm eh.. Go make a new thread if you have more questions Marko. Post by twastheglow » Thu Aug 21, pm Sorry. I just wanted to know if they dealt with the pcv.

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I know people like images so I won't hold off any longer. Here's the factory system click image for larger display :. Now let me explain what's happening here. The piston rings don't seal perfectly, so there is some air that gets by them and we call that blow-by. This blow-by air is pressurized and will cause oil seals to fail and eventually will cause other major problems so it needs to be dealt with.

Having a vacuum in the crank case is very good as it promotes ring seal and keeps windage losses drag on the rotating crank caused by a cloud of oil in the crank case to a minimum. Since having a vacuum in the crank case is good and having pressure there is bad, we must get rid of the pressure somehow. The air comes in contact with a lot of oil in the crank case and basically turns into a mix of air and oil along with a little bit of gasoline and water.

I even showed little oil droplets condensing out of the air as it goes up through the "catch can" oil separator. I didn't show them everywhere in all the baffles, but you can imagine the same thing happening everywhere you see baffles. The amount of air and oil can be quite significant, so Nissan put in two important pathways for the pressure to escape from the crank case because at times there can be a lot of air to evacuate. On the left the air and oil can escape the crank case up along the timing chain portion of the block and into the valve cover.

This is the usual pathway for the air to take. On the right the oily air can escape the crank case in times where there is excessive pressure to evacuate through the provision in the side of the block, up through the oil separator catch can leaving the crank case.

So the goal is to have a vacuum in the crank case, and this is accomplished on some vehicles with a dry sump oil system , but on regular vehicles the intake manifold is used for the source of vacuum.

Basically the engine is setup to consume it's own blow-by gasses. Not a super great idea, but certainly efficient, practical, and good for the environment. All right if you've been paying attention we now have the blow-by gasses up and out of the crank case and in the valve cover now.

The gasses are going to continue on through the small PCV positive crank-case ventilation port at the top-left corner of the valve cover which includes a one-way check valve so things can only flow out and not in.

The gasses flow out of the PCV port and into the intake manifold where they are sucked back into the engine to get consumed and pushed out of the exhaust. Simple enough. Now the gasses have a bit of oil mixed in with it, so on it's way out of the valve cover it passes through a labyrinth of baffles designed to help condense the oil and collect the oil from the air. The more surface area the oil has to cling on to the more oil will separate from the air.

The oil that is collected drains back down onto the valve train and eventually returns to the oil pan. Here is another diagram showing the normal operation of the crank case ventilation system with half of the system greyed out:. A little blow-by is pushed into the crank case but the intake manifold sucks it up and the oil separator in the valve cover keeps most of the oil from escaping the engine. The manifold keeps a good vacuum on the crank case during idle and partial throttle conditions which amount to most of your driving.

That's where the other half of the system comes into play. Now there are a couple things happening at WOT. Firstly, there is no real vacuum to speak of in the intake manifold or plenum. With the throttle fully open, the entire intake track experiences atmospheric pressure and no longer produces any vacuum. This means there won't be any vacuum applied to the crank case and blow-by evacuation will be problematic.

Secondly, WOT produces the most blow-by because of the pressure in the cylinder and the lack of vacuum in the crank case remember the vacuum promotes ring seal and without good ring seal there is more blow-by.

This means there is a lot more blow-by to deal with at WOT and there's no vacuum to suck the blow-by up. In the past, OEMs just vented the crank case to atmosphere and called it a day. In these times of pollution consciousnesses, spouting air with oil and gasoline vapors into the atmosphere untreated is a big no-no. So in an effort to control those emissions Nissan routed the gasses back into the intake to take advantage of the slight vacuum present in the intake very slight and also route the pollutants back into the engine to be consumed and eventually treated by the catalytic converter.

Because there is not really any vacuum present, the blow-by gasses build up pressure and relatively slowly move up to the valve cover via both the left and right pathways. These pathways are also larger than the regular PCV hose because flow is important now that the vacuum is gone. Let's follow the path of the blow-bay gasses at WOT.

They start out at the bottom just as before and this time they go up the timing chain section and the catch can section on the right. The pressure in the crank case is now going to be about equal to that in the intake manifold, so not much of anything will flow through the PCV hose. The blow-by gasses will have to continue on through the valve cover where there is even more built-in oil separation labyrinth. Eventually the gasses leave the valve cover and meet up with the gasses that took the other route through the catch can.

By now both routes have gone through an oil separator so the air is going to be relatively oil free.