Racerbox77

This is after approximately 1000 miles.
My car is a 14' Maxima with 15000 miles and runs perfectly fine does not burn oil nor ever has.
So I'm sure all VQs would benefit from this. I put a catch can on all of my cars and this is just as much as my 300C SRT had and my old M3 so it's normal to have this much I guess. I'd suggest a catch can for all. This would be coating my intake runners and backs of intake valves as well as pooling at the bottom of the upper intake.

MaximaDrvr

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Pictures of how and where you installed yours?

george__

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can you reuse that oil or no?

Racerbox77

I guess you could but why?

Racerbox77

Shipwreck

what line is that that you tap into? I'm interested in doing this. My Maxima is a 2010, already has 45k miles on it. Never had fuel consumption issues so far, but if you're gathering that much oil, that's something to consider.

Racerbox77

Pcv valve hose

CorollaULEV

So - a catch can is a great idea, I'm sure. But, I'm at 120,000 miles on my 2010. I changed the plugs at 105,000. Of course, the manifold has to come off to get to the rear 3. I got a good look at all of the intake valves - as well as the lower manifold and upper manifolds. I've used synthetic oil since 5000 miles. There was some oil coating the surfaces inside, but the intake valves were 100% clean. Absolutely no deposits at all. Nor were there any deposits in the manifolds.

However...it is a FANTASTIC way to measure the blow-by.

Late,
Trav

Ghozt

yea i ran a catch can previously for a bit after finding oil in my manifold. seems like a VQ problem