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#1 · (Edited)
There is a perfect place right next to the passenger side headlight for it. I can even look through the grill when the hood is down to check if it needs to be drained.
 

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#4 ·
yep..much cleaner than just running a hose down and getting oil all over the undercarriage. And no seals there on my rig. the grill/hood doesn't touch it at all. Heck, there's no room in the engine compartment under the hood for anything, not even a catchcan!
 
#7 ·
:rofl:The gauge is a joke but it looks cool...it doesn't even move off zero at idle...whether it moves at full throttle I dont know since Im not out hangin' on the front bumper while Im driving:hehe:... Supposedly it will move as the can fills with oil, but there is a clear tubing on the side to see the oil level. I found it cheap on ebay ( seller "360 Infinite USA"). He had some cool carbon fiber ones too, but this was the last one he had with a gauge that I think is a vacuum gauge.
 
#10 ·
ok going to show my ignorance here, what the heck is this and what does it do?
 
#13 ·
It is called a CCV mod (crank case vent). Good luck searching that as the words are less than 4 letters each ("CCV" and "mod").

The crank case needs a vent so that it does not pressurize, so the oil canister (where you fill it with oil) has a tube that connects it to the tube going into the turbo (between the air filter and turbo). This allows the crank case to vent (to a slight vacuum depending on how clogged the air filter is) but also prevents oily mist that can occurfrom making it to the environment.

People like to disconnect this, to prevent the crankcase vapors / oily mist from going back into the intake. Some guys run a line down the frame to the ground (basically dripping oil every so often, not much) or in this case, a catch can that can be drained.

In a perfect world, there would be something we could splice in, in-line, to keep it vented the same way but catch the oil before it gets to the turbo.
 
#11 ·
So generally the crank case vents into the intake correct? So why would a guy want to either vent it into a catch canister or down below the chasis? Doe it improve performance or something?:dunno:
 
#12 ·
It's one of the first mods I'd do on a lot of motorcycles but I'm not sure how much you'd gain here. :dunno:
 
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