Woke up on a mission this morning - finally installed the totally revamped oil catch, ala ARC's design. I now have both valve covers tied together into a T-fitting, the third leg of which goes into the oil catch. The ARC design doesn't use a T - they just connect both valve covers to the catch can. Since I have only one inlet, I had to branch both hoses in to the single inlet. There's a little more hose clutter now because of the oil catch so I might try to move things around again. But I did techflex all the hoses, so they look good, at least.
First was getting the can mounted, vertical where it didn't interfere with anything else. I used the spot I had tried once before after failing to mount the can in the back left of the engine bay. So I used two slotted L brackets that allowed me to angle the can so it was clear of interference. Sorry for the focus in the picture:
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As it turns out, the hose that connects the driver side valve cover (PCV) to the intake tube is a bigger diameter than the the passenger side valve cover (PCV) which is connected to the lower plenum. I hadn't realized this when I cut new hoses. I bought only one size, so I was a little surprised to take off the Strut tower brace, intake tube, disconnect and remove the throttle body and find the hoses I had on hand wouldn't work.
The only other larger hose I had was from my radiator - when I replaced my coolant hoses with the Samco hoses, I kept the OEM hoses that were not damaged. The smallest of the OEM hoses happens to fit perfectly to the PCV on the driver side (directly under the throttle body), route behind the plenum and end right where I needed it to on the passenger side - totally by luck. I hose clamped it to a T fitting along with the passenger side PCV, then to the inlet of the can.
The old radiator hose, now techflex'd and routed:
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and the T fitting:
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Finally I decided to use the the lower plenum as the suction source, because it was closer.
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That meant that I had to plug the inlet on the intake tube, which I did with a bit of hose, plug & clamp. It's about an inch longer than it needs to be. I'll probably trim it at some point.
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Everything is working fine and I expect to empty the catch can in about a week. Won't have more than a short trickle, but I should see that it's working.