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Hi guys,

I bought a cheap catch can similar to the d1 or jspec cheapies with out a breather. I left it up to a friend to intall it for me.

On my RB25DET he sealed off the pcv to the inlet pipe before turbo, left the pcv valve and line from the side of the rocker cover to the inlet plenumm. the two rocker cover out lets he conntected to the catch can. This basically sealed in all crank case presure. I drove the car away after a few minutes a huge cloud of white smoke came out behind me while driving. i pulled over noticed the incorrect set up. It built up enough pressure that when i open the oil filler it was make a psssht noise releasing the pressure(while engine running). i took the car home and put it all back to standard.

However i now have a squeek noise from the front of the engine. It sounds like a faint squeeky belt. I notice this got louder when the engine could not breathe with the incorrect can set up.

What could i have damaged from too much pressure build up? i am guessing the cloud of white smoke was oil being passed thru the turbo seals, after i returned it to normal it is no longer blowing any white smoke.

The squeek noise wont go away and i think it may have casued some internal damamge? any ideas what it could have done? The car still runs fine other wise.

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why do ppl not do a search about a simple catch can instilation's ive hurd so many ppl describe the above symptems.

it happens so often its not funny. i thought with all the wealth of information that is avalible then this stuff wouldnt happen

yes the dip stick is still there and did not pop out. Noise seems to have gone down now and the can is hooked up correctly.

I did search this forum extensivley- There is so much conflicting info on how ot install them and no clear way. The actual can came with very vague instructios.

SLIMVLT- do u know what out comes these symptoms havE?

Yeah a tutorial would be good, too much ambigous information in net forums regard catch can installs. I hope i havent damaged the egine internally. it is making that noise still at idle and its definenetly in the engine not the pullys.

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