| Author | Message | ||
     Diablobrian |
I got my catch can in the mail today. These will be, or are, available through Al at Americansportbike.com. Mike did a great job on the machining of these. very nice fit, and the finish (anodized) is very nice as well. I will post pics and time required for install after I am done. BTW the o-ring seal is sweet, but what about the screw holes?   | ||
| Tq_freak |
this is used so you can take the breather tubes out of the air box right? | ||
| Dukeoftank |
very nice looking. please post some pics after you get it mounted | ||
| Diablobrian |
exactly tq_freak. the back connection is the inlet from the rocker boxes. The top connection gets a small K&N type filter. the valve on the bottom is for draining the inevitable "gunk" accumulation. | ||
| Ronlv |
i have had my breather tubes out of the airbox with k&n breather filters on each end, for a few months now and have never seen anything drip from them yet. | ||
| Diablobrian |
I'm pretty sure that it has a lot to do with the humidity. In Nevada there won't be much moisture in the air. Here in Missouri our humidity is a lot more of a factor. | ||
| Typeone |
that 'can' looks gorgeous. Mike did some great work. i re-routed my tubes a few weeks ago, is it normal to see weird white goo in the filter? i only have them removed from the intake path joined with a "T" fitting then routed to a K&N like breather filter. just wondering what color the 'schmutz' ends up being. i was surprised to see white. | ||
| Brad_buell |
That catch can looks great. I can't wait to see pics of it installed on your bike. -Brad | ||
| Al_lighton |
I'll have them up on the web site tomorrow. Al | ||
| Jackbequick |
Typone - Oil turns light colored, sort of milky looking, when it has water mixed with it. Jack | ||
| Djkaplan |
" is it normal to see weird white goo in the filter?" Yes, it's referred to as "spooge", a word that I believe was invented here on the board. Do a search on "spooge" and you'll be surprised. Some people call it "splooge", but they are using the term incorrectly. | ||
| Bomber |
spooge pre-dates Badweb by decades, but remains a fine term for this material ;-} | ||
| Djkaplan |
Where exactly did "spooge" come from? Does it have a military background? Spooge, spooge, spooge..., it's fun to say. | ||
| Glitch |
To rid yourself of said spooge, just ride your bike more. You'll evaporate the moisture that spooge needs to live.  Ride to rid spooge. | ||
| Lastcyclone |
Spooge: a- residue or byproduct formed by the undesireable mixing of substances. b- the dried or drying remainder of post coition fluids. I know the second definition was used very frequently in college in the early 80s. | ||
| Kdan |
Dr. Ruth calls it Smegma. Where on American Sportbike's website is this catch can located? Maybe I'm dense, but I can't find it. And for those of you who can't make your own Spooge, here's a recipe...Go figure. http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink2205.html | ||
| Djkaplan |
My spooge doesn't look like that. | ||
| Rhun |
Why do you need a catch can???? | ||
| Stealthxb |
Smegma and Spooge are completely different goos! smeg·ma n. A sebaceous secretion, especially the cheesy secretion that collects under the prepuce or around the clitoris. /spooj/ n. A viscous whitish secretion of the male reproductive organs, containing spermatozoa and consisting of secretions of the testes, seminal vesicles, prostate, and bulbourethral glands. Also called seminal fluid. | ||
| Kdan |
Ok smarty britches...Tell me where your bulbourethral gland is! | ||
| Stealthxb |
Bulbourethral gland: Also called Cowper's gland. A pea-sized gland in the male located behind and to the side of the urethra that discharges a component of seminal fluid into the urethra. There are two bulbourethral glands, one on each side. They are the counterparts of Bartholin's glands in the female. | ||
| Stealthxb |
Oh yea...nice can Brian. I just cannot figure out what the benefits of this are. I am just using a Breather filter like this:  | ||
| Tq_freak |
where would you mount the catch can too on the bike, looking at the spacing of the holes it looks close to the same demension of the air scoop on the oil cooler. where is everyone else going to put it?  | ||
| Typeone |
hahaa, thnx for the er, um, clarification/definitions of SPOOGE. apologies for the misnomer  Stealthxb, i'm using the same filter on one end of a T fitting. not much SPOOGE was in the filter after a few weeks, just wanted to make sure the SPOOGE was the correct color. hehee. I used same method as another board member running the mini filter outside/next to the big filter in the box. out of the direct intake path like stock config. (forget member but it was on a SX) | ||
| Al_lighton |
It's up, see here I received 15 of them today, a few are already spoken for. Al | ||
| Al_lighton |
And they look fabulous. Mike did a great job with them. He's hoping to find some nicer fittings, but the ones on there are nice enough, better than plastic for sure. The top fitting uses a breather filter of some sort. You could run it without one as there IS net positive out flow from the breathers, but I think some type of filter there (i.e. like the filter shown above is appropriate. I've seen people fit small fuel filters, but I don't think they're a good idea, they clog too easily. A K&N style one is fine, and you don't need to oil it, it takes care of that for you  I'll get one fitted on the shop XB9S this weekend and take a picture. Al | ||
| Diablobrian |
Like Al said, it attatches to the oil cooler mounts, inboard of the cooler. |
