Placed my Pre-order! Now I am just waiting for you guys to announce that you are working on a performance radiator for the Ram 1500 with the 5.7L (hint, hint...)
Awesome! We've gotten so many requests for that, it's getting hard to put that off for much longer. I've, again, forwarded the interest in a radiator based off the responses from this thread. We will look into it!
Post number 21 is the best description on this item or any oil catch can, for that matter.
If they were all free, I would not install one.
The manufactures of this product and any catch can has found a gold mine in the people that are so naive about their Hemi motors.
How about Helium for your tires?LOLOLOLOLOL
Capitalism at It's best.
Not sure about him, but I try to help people. I am cheap, so I won't buy anything unless I know it has a proven benefit. Some people buy just because everyone else did, or it's the forum ***** (saw this all the time when I was big into Car Audio). I think people should at least have an alternate opinion to think about before spending $200.
You are right though, I should not insult anyone that has bought one. I know people pay a hell of lot more money than $200 for peace of mind. I will however continue to argue that it's benefits are not proven.
Catch cans are more of a preventative measure than anything. It's not a part designed for you to see immediate benefits or changes in performance. Some automotive manufacturers design engines to have factory air/oil separators, so the issue is prevalent enough that engineers in that field have devoted time to it. The problem with AOS systems is that they just reroute what they separate back into the system.
The reason you don't see companies have a kit like our on their cars is because it's an extra step in maintenance the general driver will have to pay attention to, and in the automotive field, that's something engineers tend to stay far away from.
Our market research team won't suggest we make something that is totally and completely unnecessary for that market. We carefully vet every avenue of aftermarket parts to be sure that it's something the community will want and can certainly benefit from. Some parts, the benefit comes later on down the road, some are immediate bolt-on parts designed to bump your power output. It all depends. In this case, this is a maintenance part that we have shown can provide benefit.
I can go back to our catch can project on our 2016 Mazda Miata.
Check out the full writeup at this link
Within 3000 miles, the walls of the intake manifold already had a thin coating of oil. While this may not really seem like a big deal, combustion efficiency is already affected due to the mixture of contaminants like oil being burned. That is also what causes carbon deposits on your valves. Catch cans significantly reduces this from happening, which is good for your engine in the
long run.
Of course, there are vehicles out there that hit 200,000+ without a problem not running a catch can. But what this product does is just make the engine run a bit cleaner. This is also why a lot of people with applications that have forced induction need catch cans. Since this blow-by goes to your intake track, that means it will get to your turbo and intercooler, and that is bad news.
We've cancelled catch can projects in the past after we found that our design wasn't doing anything. But catch cans can work if designed properly and if the application it's designed for throws a lot of blow by, making it more necessary on some applications than others. For this truck, we have documented evidence that the product is doing something! Otherwise, we certainly would not have spent the time to make it. Any catch can we make goes through extensive testing to be sure it's doing something. Hope this clears a bit up! Let me know if you guys have any other questions.
-Diamaan