for those who have removed your charcoal canister...

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for those who have removed your charcoal canister...

By teal_dx
- Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:55 pm #25942 what did you do with your return fuel line?

I ran mine down under the passenger side of the engine bay where the tube from the charcoal canister used to go. But since it is not a closed system as before, I'm wndering if I am losing fuel by evaporation? the last couple of days it has been really hot and I swear when I leave work I had more gas on the way to work that morning. :?
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By chnzgoofball
- Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:11 pm #25947 sorry cant help u there... :? i just let mines hang when i took mines off... but i did notice a mpg drop in my gas so i put it back :lol:
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By suspendedHatch
- Sat Oct 13, 2007 4:36 am #26358 Why in the world would you want to remove that? Do you hate getting good gas mileage? Do you hate the ozone layer?
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By teal_dx
- Sat Oct 13, 2007 2:23 pm #26366 When you install a turbo, the canister loses its effectiveness due to a lack of vacuum. All the plumbing for our cars are designed for vacuum, once you bring positive pressure in to the equation, you need to modify some things like pvc, catch can, charcoal canister.... look at some turbo setups, none of them will have it.
My car is no longer a daily driver.
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By asianrob
- Sat Oct 13, 2007 2:38 pm #26369 i took mine off and it still did nothing lol got the same mpg just made more space in the bay lol left the fuel line as is
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By ChicagoMike
- Sat Oct 13, 2007 3:43 pm #26371
suspendedHatch wrote:Why in the world would you want to remove that? Do you hate getting good gas mileage? Do you hate the ozone layer?


The charcoal canister is due to be replaced every 10 years. If you havent been doing that, its not working anyway.............rip that shit out!!
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By chnzgoofball
- Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:32 pm #26952
ChicagoMike wrote:
suspendedHatch wrote:Why in the world would you want to remove that? Do you hate getting good gas mileage? Do you hate the ozone layer?


The charcoal canister is due to be replaced every 10 years. If you havent been doing that, its not working anyway.............rip that shit out!!



hahaha :lol:
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By suspendedHatch
- Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:09 am #27300 In CA they're going to require the smog station to test your charcoal canister starting in Nov. I just got my car smogged to sell it, and the guy already had the equipment, so I had him do it. It passed. Car is a 93. You do the math.

If it's not a daily driver, that's the answer I was looking for. I would never argue with someone who removed smog equipment for a dedicated track car.

On my daily driven turbo Civic wagon RIP, I did some creative pcv plumbing and added a catch can. I wanted a closed system. For vacuum I went with a slashcut tube pre-turbo. I kept the stock system functional. BTW a turbocharged car still sees vacuum most of the time. You can drive a turbocharged car easy on the throttle and for all intents and purposes it's n/a.

Laugh at me for actually caring about the world around me but it just so happens my whole city is on fire. It was the driest summer in history. Large parts of the US are in drought. Global warming :thumbdown:
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By suspendedHatch
- Fri Nov 02, 2007 1:55 am #28236 That car is RIP and you wouldn't see the slashcut in any of the engine shots because it's inside the piping.

Basically the slashcut feeds a vacuum manifold. Tap whatever you want off that manifold.

New projects have all been N/A.

New charcoal canister from the dealer costs about $20 and you'll get that back in mpg. But if it's a trailer queen, the point is mute.
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