leaking bov

[dazsQ]

this afternoon i was just playing around with my bov and adjusted too loose and the cap flew off.. and a few pieces flew out.. spring and cap thingy.. luckily the bonnet was open and i picked the pieces up (spring, metal bottle cap thingy) and screwed them back in.. afterwards i've been experiencing a rough idle and it seems to want to stall.. am i missing a few pieces on my bov?? i've been told i might have a leaking bov.. how might i fix it? Thanks

btw this is on an sr20det 180sx

[MarkR33]

have you got the pieces around the wrong way, i did this to my bov aswell unscrewed it too much and it went everywere and I put it back the wrong way so the gold bit that moves up and down was up the wrong way

if thats not the cause have you tightened it enough? , and no your not missing anything

mine had BOV spring , BOV copper gold thing(botle cap) , the top and the bottom ,

failure to that you may have damaged/ bent your spring? does it look ****ed?

i eventually put my stock bOv back on becuase the aftermarket was shit

not sure if its the same on a 180 but the r33 stock bov is mint

give me a PM if its not it and ill try and figure it out by looking at mine for u/ le tme know how u faired

[dazsQ]

it looked ok to me.. i put the spring... then the copper bottle cap over it and then the top and bottom.. is this correct?

[MarkR33]

i think you have it the wrong way around , i sent u pm

TOP OF BOV

_________--

then spring

/

/

(CAP)

< = whoosh

________

Plate mounted onto intake

[MarkR33]

air travels up on bov's

____

| / |

| | < spring

| / |

| == |

| < exits /

______| |________| |

_ _ _ _ ^ _ POD |

___________________ /

INTAKE

as air reverts back out it forces the cap thing up via air pressure and lets it out as the spring counteracts , so if you have in fact inversed it (flipped it) then its letting out air without any resistance e.g if cap is at top spring at bottom

[dazsQ]

ahhhhhhh thanks

so i'll just confirm it fits like this

the copper cap sits face up

like so:

|_|

then the spring on top or inside it

then the lid ontop?

[dazsQ]

also another thing.. are there any benefits performance wise if the lid is loosened a bit? isit best to have it tight as possible or maybe just tight?

[MarkR33]

the more air it lets out the less is going back towards the turbo , i didnt really notice any difference between tightening it / loosesning it , i would tigten it on a scale of 1 - 100

1% being loose and the top blowing off

100% tight as can make it

on the line it was about 70% i found it the best

so tight just not super tight

seems to do both release air + make a nice noise tight noise not fluttery

thatway you know its releasing it in 1 go not little bitts (fluttery)