Hi All,
I had an enjoyable weekend in the shed getting the car ready for the AROCC 6 hour in 2 weeks.
I pulled my LS6 manifold to put the 4 barrel setup back on and was greeted by the usual
oil around the intake ports. I'd been thinking about building a better breather setup for a while and this fired me up.
I built a combination catch tank and engine breather. I'm not using the PCV system at all now. I figure it wasn't that environmentally friendly to burn all that
oil when you could just drain it every now and then and pour it back in the motor.
The catch tank breather holds 3.5 Litres so it doubles as an oveflow for the engine in case of some catastrophic failure. I don't fancy having
oil dumped on the track.
Phil Mizzi gave me the idea for the breather tank but I figured I'd make it out of tube rather than a box as it was easier to fabricate.
I'm pretty happy with how it's turned out. I'm even more happy because I'm finally starting to get some good results welding aluminium with my TIG. I'd been struggling to get the setup and technique right. I'd been getting good results with steel and stainless but aluminium had been a real pain. I think the turning point might have been the new automatic welding helment I bought. It's a really good professional one with a very clear lense and good controls for different shades and response time etc. It makes it so much better being able to see what your doing. Aluminium doesn't change colour when it's molten so you have to watch the weld pool closely to see it go shiny when it's molten. I just couldn't see that clearly with my old helmet.
Hope you all had fun weekends.
Cheers