Charcoal canister and breather help!


jesse888

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I've taken out the black box with pcv valve and blocked the hole in the block, have two ports on the rear of block and routed to an open catch can.
The top of the valve cover is just open ATM with nothing on it.
Now what about the charcoal canister and all the ports on the manifold? Do I need to touch these as they are now going to see positive pressure or am I ok to leave them and the canister gubbins as it is stock?
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I'd be curious to know this too - heard removal of the canister can result in a fuel smell in the garage.

I was considering running check valves to the IM and top of the throttle body nipple to keep the Charcoal Canister system if needed.
 
I removed the cannister and vented the breather from the tank and it did indeed cause a fuel smell which has to be expected I suppose
 
Going to bump this again, wondering about this charcoal canister and being boosted.
Does the system have it's own check valve in the case of a backfire up the intake?
Will I need a check valve of my own?
Do I need to delete it?
 
I removed the cannister and vented the breather from the tank and it did indeed cause a fuel smell which has to be expected I suppose

This. just vent it under the car. No fuel smell.
 
So just scrap it yeah?
Bung up the lines on the intake manifold and route the vent from the tank out of the way?
 
Yeah all I did was chuck the canister away, route the red line under the car and block off any vac lines.
Pretty sure I used the vac port for my boost gauge.
 
There is a check valve incorporated into the top of canister. I've not had any problems with running a decent amount of boost with the canister left in place.
 
Will any **** get sucked into the intake if I leave it as it is? My throttle body was quite a state when I took it off.
It's got no other breather ports attached so I'm assuming all the crap has come from that?
 
Slight bump for this thread, what did you do in the end jesse? I'm looking to replace my throttle body with the Edelbrock 65mm piece which doesn't have the top hose outlet, therefore I'd have no way of running the OEM hose from the TB to the charcoal canister.

I have the OEM throttle body off, and if I blow down the TB-to-charcoal canister hose I can see 2 very small pin holes in the TB before the butterfly, so I'm guessing this hose is used to generate a small vacuum for the charcoal canister?

Any help would be great, the only thing that concerns me about removing the entire charcoal canister system is that I'd get an EML if I unplugged the purge valve (right hand rear of inlet mani).
 
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