gingerprince
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| posted on 7/2/06 at 09:09 AM |
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Fireblade breather pipes
Okay looking at my fireblade engine there seem to be 3 pipes venting to thin air. There's the carb. breather just below the fuel lines,
there's the pipes at the other side of the carbs (2 pipes into one thingy near the choke doohickey) and then what I assume to be the crank case
breather (near No. 4 spark plug).
With the lack of an airbox, which of these should go via a catch tank, which need to be filtered, and which should just wave in thin air?
My guess would be that I need to get one of those little filter boxes for the carb. breather which for some reason I don't have (though how
critical is this? it's obviously been running a while without), the crankcase breather filtered via a catch tank, but the "other"
I'm not sure about? Should this just flap, separate filter or catch tank?
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alister667
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| posted on 7/2/06 at 10:10 AM |
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First up have a wee look HERE
The crank case breather can go into a catch tank - a small aluminium drinks bottle will do the job. Rarely seems to spit anything out in my
experience.
The fuel 'breather' can be blocked off until you need to look at emmisions testing.
The two into one, I'm not sure about I honestly can't remember where I stiuck that, and I'm not near the car nor my haynes to
check.
Good luck
Ali
http://members.lycos.co.uk/alister667/
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gingerprince
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| posted on 7/2/06 at 09:42 PM |
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Thanks. I didn't mean the little hose in that picture though I meant the on here: -
 
Flappy Hoses
The one labeled "breather" hose I think is actually supposed to come out the other side (looking at the Haynes manual) and connects to a
"carburetor breather cover" which I don't have, in which is a filter. I guess I'll get a K&N breather thing.
Looking at the Haynes too it looks like the 2-into-1 I mentioned (air vent above) just "flaps about".
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gingerprince
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| posted on 7/2/06 at 09:43 PM |
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Oh, and I made me a catch tank too 
 
Catch Tank
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Mark18
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| posted on 1/5/06 at 01:53 PM |
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I'm looking at doing up a catch tank similar to that - is it ok to duct the cam-case breather into a catch tank like that? Seems weird to me
when it was originally into the airbox.
Also while I'm asking, is there any reason why I couldn't tap the hose labelled "air vent" into my air filter back plate
instead of getting one of those little standalone filter jobs? thanks.
Mark
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Mark18
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| posted on 4/5/06 at 07:34 PM |
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Was that a dumb question or something?
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