[Diy_efi] Venturi effect crankcase breather

[Adam Wade]

--- Matt Porritt <porrittm at anet.co.nz> wrote:

> Not quite magic, but a vacuum gauge easily shows
> there is vacuum.

I suggest you test this teory at some point.

>> Measured at the plenum?  If it's properly designed,
>> it should barely register.

> At idle it will register quite high actually

Since a PCV line has to connect to the intake BEFORE
the throttle, no, it will eseentially be
indistinguishable from atmospheric.

> No I'm not suggesting car engines have completely
> different sets of dynamics from car engines...????

Well, you acknowledged my points were valid for
motorcycles, but claim they aren't valid for cars. 
What is your explanation?

On second thought, forget I asked.  Spend some time
under the hood of a car and let me know what you come
up with.

=====
| Adam Wade                       1990 Kwak Zephyr 550 (Daphne) |
| "It was like an emergency ward after a great catastrophe; it  |
|   didn't matter what race or class the victims belonged to.   |
|  They were all given the same miracle drug, which was coffee. |
|   The catastrophe in this case, of course, was that the sun   |
|     had come up again."                    -Kurt Vonnegut     |

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