bigBADbenny wrote:Great! Can you keep us in the loop please?
Sure. I'm without my car for 3 weeks (and will be away in Melb for 2 weeks on holidays, from Mon onwards). But once I'm back I will make a final decision on the design.
But I had a look and measured a fellow GTSpecB owner's car today, and I don't see *any way* of fitting 2 Catch Cans beside the battery. Even Bezzza's twin Saikou Michis required the removal of the washer fluid reservoir: (
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=17319&start=162). And I'm not keen on that.
Here's what's clear so far:
Price according to their website without any group-buy is $165 + postage from the US for 2 cans (may be as much as $230 + postage for 2 cans if going for the larger 3" diameter).
It takes at least a month for them to make the custom can - they're usually that busy from what I've read.
Don't order the design the OzFoz member had (diagram on previous page), with the 1/2" inlet/outlet on *LH* side. Unless you're planning to mount the cans on the intake side of the engine bay like he did. Bezzza correctly ordered the 1/2" inlet/outlet on the *RH* side, since he mounted them on the battery side of the engine bay (even if he did accidentally order 5/8" instead of 3/4" for the LH side).
But the drains should definitely be on the front like the OzFoz member and Bezzza had - not the bottom, because clearance is tight against the metal panel around the bottom of the battery.
The 'S1-DC3' cans that are in the previous page's diagram are usually 2.5" diameter x 6" high (plus inlets/outlets), not the 3" size that the OzFoz member ordered. (
http://www.saikoumichi.com/s1_dc3_oil_catch_can.html ). So you have to specify the larger size in the configuration diagram, if you want that. The 2.5" is the smallest that they have, 3" is the largest (2.75" is the medium size). My guess is he didn't just order the normal 3" 'S3-OCC' cans because they are 7" high.
But whatever, you'll either get a shortened 'S3-OCC' or a larger diameter 'S1-DC3' - just make the configuration diagram clear and you'll get what you're after.
I don't think going as small as 2.5" makes any difference to fitment - still can't fit 2 cans beside the battery. So may as well go with separate 'S1-Split DC3' cans, up-sized to 3" (
http://www.saikoumichi.com/SPLIT_DC3_page.htm ).
*Tim, a fellow local GTSpecB owner has a catch can installed on the firewall just left (if looking forward) of the TMIC. So the second can could go there.*