Mazda 323F GT

Handmade Oil Catch Tank

So... 70$ just for the bottle and a couple of pipes? No way. Let's do this ourselves.

What we’ll need ?

- tin-plate can/bottle. Use any from car oil additives like oil system washers etc.

- copper pipes in two diameters

- powerful soldering iron (better something like 100Watt)

- clear plastic pipe for meter

- plastic net

- can of paint

- air breather filter

- clamp (to use as mounting)

Step 1. Smaller pipe will be used for meter, larger for inlet and outlet. Mark places where you will make the holes and drill them. Sand space around holes and tinker it.

Step 2. Bend the smaller pipe 90 deg.

If you don’t have bender - cut straight, two pieces of pipe approx 1.5 inch long. Each piece cut half by 45 deg angle. Sand pipes and tinker them. Turn both pieces so they would make a 90 deg turn and tinker them together (it could be more easy to tinker internal part first to can, and then tinker second pipe to the first one).

Step 3. Cut bigger pipes, sand them, and tinker them to the can.

Step 4. Cut a piece of net on internal perimeter of a can. Twist it, stick inside the can, release it and adjust between inlet and outlet holes. This suppose to be net to catch the oil vapours. I was not able to find net with cells small enough so used possibly useless one.

Step 5. Sand the body of a can (it could be good idea to do this in advance before any other steps).

Step 6. Now it up to you to paint it or not.

Step 7. Stick a clear plastic pipe to the 90 deg jets. (I was not able to find pipe big enough to put it on the jets so used smaller one and put it into jets and seal it using sealant).

Step 8. Mount air breather on outlet pipe

Step 9. Bend a clamp around the can and attach the tank inside the bonnet.

Step 10. Disconnect your crank case breather pipe from air induct pipe (seal the hole there) and connect to the inlet of the oil catch tank.

Also I can’t hold from adding a few stickers… to finish the product :)

That’s it.

Kira aka Aprilia, 2005