Hudson_Neon's fabrications and such

Hudson_Neon · Post by **Hudson_Neon** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 2:35 am

so at about 10:30 central i decided that i want a catch can. went out on the net and realized i can make one cheaper than all those. a nice one too. so here it is. i'm still gonna be color matching it to the car.

Post by **racer12306** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:58 am

looks good

i wanted to make my own but i ran out of time. good to see someone else has the abilities to vere from the norm.

Hudson_Neon · Post by **Hudson_Neon** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 1:08 pm

meaning fabricate?

Hudson_Neon · Post by **Hudson_Neon** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:15 pm

ok, got it into primer, probably gonna stay that way fora while till i can get some more hardener for my clear coat. i'll just slap it on the car this way for now. oh yeah... um... don't mind the big guy in the background... sorry

SlvrACR · Post by **SlvrACR** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:22 pm

Make sure you pressure test it or you will get some crazy idle/noises

Hudson_Neon · Post by **Hudson_Neon** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:26 pm

i did a leak test with water by plugging one of the two fittings and filling it with water and letting it sit for about 4 hours. if water can't find it's way out in 4 hours then there's no way that air can

SlvrACR · Post by **SlvrACR** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:37 pm

Just saying from personally expierance. Water also doesnt have the pressure that your vacumm has. Trying to save you a headache.

Hudson_Neon · Post by **Hudson_Neon** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:08 pm

you're right. worse comes to worse i gotta take it off

SlvrACR · Post by **SlvrACR** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 12:33 am

Hey atleast is will do its job and it was alot cheaper.

Hudson_Neon · Post by **Hudson_Neon** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:16 pm

well, it's on the car. no noises or crazy idle. this is temporary till i can get some more hardener for the clear, then i'm colomatching it. for anybody who actually looks at this and might want one let me know (PM me) and i might be able to work sonething out with you

SlvrACR · Post by **SlvrACR** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:21 pm

Good job man. Looks nice for not paying an arm and leg. Ive had 3 and the first 2 leaked on me.

Hudson_Neon · Post by **Hudson_Neon** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:23 pm

i'll post some pics of it installed later tonight, kinda at night class right now

Post by **racer12306** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:34 pm

SlvrACR wrote:Good job man. Looks nice for not paying an arm and leg. Ive had 3 and the first 2 leaked on me.

Any chance that one of the ones that leaked is on my car right now?

SlvrACR · Post by **SlvrACR** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:38 pm

LOL no i returned one and still have the other one. I wouldnt sell a broken item without telling someone

Post by **racer12306** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:44 pm

I figured, you seem like a good person. But just figured I would check thats all.

SlvrACR · Post by **SlvrACR** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:53 pm

There is no way in hell the Bwoody ones will leak lol

Hudson_Neon · Post by **Hudson_Neon** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 10:24 pm

the Bwoody catch can is actually where i got the idea. i think they look similar in the facy that they're both sealed boxes and i used the same sized barbed fittings

Hudson_Neon · Post by **Hudson_Neon** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:23 am

here we go, all installed

Post by **racer12306** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:07 am

I like that spot, especially with a flat black can. What you could also do, if you wanted to do a revision would be have the inlet on one side and the outlet on the other side. It would minimize bending of the hose. To combat the potential for oil to go directly from one to the other, a small piece of sheet metal could be put inside to divide the can. It wouldn't even need to be the entire height, probably just a few inches would be good.

Hudson_Neon · Post by **Hudson_Neon** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:34 am

actually, it is kinda hard to tell in this pic, but one fitting is on the back side, one is on the left side

LaidNeon · Post by **LaidNeon** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 12:59 am

nice work

Hudson_Neon · Post by **Hudson_Neon** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 2:58 am

thanks man, nothin as extensive as your project, but in need this car every day... for now

Hudson_Neon · Post by **Hudson_Neon** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 11:58 pm

ok, well this is only half of the set, haven't made the other half. my other pic won't upload for the life of me. i put it on for the 20 min. ride home from the shop. it was REALLY loud. in the clip you can hear the whining. i think that's cause there's no rubber dampeners at all. but that didn't bother me so much as anything that's not bolted down in the car made a slight buzzing sound. i think that i can accelorate alot faster with it in though... and i can roast 'em through 1st and part of 2nd and yes i know i have a CEL on in the clip... it's some dumb O2 sensor BS

http://youtube.com/watch?v=A0ceLEwwAMs

Hudson_Neon · Post by **Hudson_Neon** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 1:14 am

here we go, got the installed pic to upload... and got it into primer tonight

LaidNeon · Post by **LaidNeon** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 1:48 am

what are you going to do about bushings??

Hudson_Neon · Post by **Hudson_Neon** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 2:07 am

that's the problem that i ran into. i don't think that anything bad will happen... just be loud as hell. i'm thinking about puting in some rubber gaskets anywhere i can to help reduce the noise. also these will probably end up being full race... not for the street... i don't have any issues swapping them in for a fun time though. it's not like it's hard

kplaya186 · Post by **kplaya186** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:15 am

Hudson_Neon wrote:that's the problem that i ran into. i don't think that anything bad will happen... just be loud as hell. i'm thinking about puting in some rubber gaskets anywhere i can to help reduce the noise. also these will probably end up being full race... not for the street... i don't have any issues swapping them in for a fun time though. it's not like it's hard

It might vibrate like hell also. The rubber bushings help reduce that amount of vibrations that are transfered from the engine to the body of the car. However, our 2.0L engines are not that powerful, so it might not be too bad. If it were an SRT-4 then I might start to worry about virations.

Good work BTW!

Hudson_Neon · Post by **Hudson_Neon** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 1:11 pm

you better believe that it vibrated like hell... and i found out that the 2.0 is powerfull enough to roast 'em into 2nd... with the solid torque strut... and that's only one of them. i will probably be mocking the other one up next weekend

Hudson_Neon · Post by **Hudson_Neon** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:11 am

ok, so tonight at the shop frickin blew. i decided to try my skills at a strut bar. yeah, some shit's just not possible without the right tools, no matter how much metal you have. so i'm gonna pick up a plasma cutter this some time this week. probably friday cause i get paid thursday night. so things are looking up for a strut bar next weekend. after getting really frustrated with not succeeding with a strut bar i decided to scrap my current 100% solid mount and work on one with some vacuume line as a makeshift bushing. this is going to be version 2.0. i've been talking to some rubber companies and seeing what sort of deals i can score as far as mass ordering REAL bushings. stay tuned for more updates. oh yeah, and i'm officially 20! whoopty frickin doo. 20 sucks just as bad as 19. still can't hit up a bar.

jT · Post by jT » Mon Oct 22, 2007 3:44 am

what is the purpose of a catch can... ive seen such threads all over the place but they all assume that you will know wtf it is in the first place :p

i read one thread that said the catch can will smell like ass... so why would anyone want one? :p