jdub said:
Might be easier to just bolt the stock canister back in place rig it so it looks good lol. The last time I went they popped the hood and looked but it was just a quick walk by.
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Might be easier to just bolt the stock canister back in place rig it so it looks good lol. The last time I went they popped the hood and looked but it was just a quick walk by.
Someone stole some gas from my supra one time by prying open the tank lid cover (easy to do since the previous owner wrecked, hitting the passenger side, leaving a nice dent beside the tank lid to use a leverage).
I now have a Stant locking Gas cap on mine :evil2:
IIRC it's vented too...
I now have a Stant locking Gas cap on mine :evil2:
IIRC it's vented too...
For those interested there's three areas at the lower left behind the gas door, any of which can be drilled and used to mount a NC pushbutton or pin switch. Run a single wire from it to the hatch switch for the factory alarm or to an aftermarket input. 30 minute job. Presto...alarmed gas door.
Small JDM Cannister mounted under the inner fender plastic so it's hidden = system that actually works as it was designed...:nono:
p5150 said:
its not like you have a fan circulating the air into and out of the tank, the hole is just bigger then a pin hole, just to equalize pressure, i doubt theres measurable "flow".
i'll tell you how it "goes", my car has been sitting in my back yard since mid winter of '06. just a month or so ago, i went back started it and took it the long way around the block without a problem. thats a year it has been sitting with the same fuel from a year ago, threw the hot humid summer, "evaporating and getting full of moisture" running/starting fine with a 1 minute mod-ed cap.
Not to mention a regularly driven car is refueled every what, week? your telling me in that week the maybe 1 cubic foot of air that will travel threw that cap is going to make all the fuel in your tank stale?
too much thought into a simple object.
Don't know about there but here they add benzine and other things to the base stock to bump the octane up to the advertised levels and being extremely volatile it does evaporate leaving you with a tank fullOknockNrattle.
And we ALL know how well a 7M responds to being rattled....
And we ALL know how well a 7M responds to being rattled....
Not benzine here(that I know of), but Ethanol. Sometimes it's good to read the little signs at the pump. Right around 10%, iirc.
ethanol evaporates quicker as well...
I can see removing EGR (as many companies have done so recently and tuned the EGR fucntion into the cam profile), but removing the evaporative system is just plain stupid...
It keeps the gasses from escaping, and then uses them again once it's warmed up. It helps the environment, allows the car to run better, and is a win/win in every way.
Unless you're so vain and "it looks ugly." Well, I think plug wires and the coils on top of the engine look ugly, but you don't see me pulling it off... OK, that's a stretch, but how about the ugly heatsheilds? Sure, it works fine without em, but I bake my brand new wiring harness...
I can see removing EGR (as many companies have done so recently and tuned the EGR fucntion into the cam profile), but removing the evaporative system is just plain stupid...
It keeps the gasses from escaping, and then uses them again once it's warmed up. It helps the environment, allows the car to run better, and is a win/win in every way.
Unless you're so vain and "it looks ugly." Well, I think plug wires and the coils on top of the engine look ugly, but you don't see me pulling it off... OK, that's a stretch, but how about the ugly heatsheilds? Sure, it works fine without em, but I bake my brand new wiring harness...
you get the point though...
cletused mods on these cars is what will bite you in the ass later on. Not to mention if you sell the car it could potentially be dangerous...
cletused mods on these cars is what will bite you in the ass later on. Not to mention if you sell the car it could potentially be dangerous...
nosechunks said:
Ok - im sure that based on your narrow experience that I will feel comfortable using fuel that has been under those conditions when im making 600+ hp.
Where is my drill?:biglaugh:
What vacuum source would you use for the BVSV for the evap system, if you have a JDM t/b with only 1 vacuum port?
I believe I read somewhere that a Honda had a smaller cannister that would work as well?!? Anyone know of this?
I believe I read somewhere that a Honda had a smaller cannister that would work as well?!? Anyone know of this?
then don't let you car sit for a year, regardless, a car is refueled at least once a week if being driven even only on the weekends, especially a 600+ horsepower car. you would have to really try to get your fuel to go bad in a week. But do what you must to sleep at night.
I removed mine because i didn't want the clutter in the engine bay. made room for down pipe and eventually bigger turbo. I just plugged the line in the bay and vented the gas cap. Also to get rid of all vsv's and unnecessary vac hoeses that could cause vac/boost leaks
I removed mine because i didn't want the clutter in the engine bay. made room for down pipe and eventually bigger turbo. I just plugged the line in the bay and vented the gas cap. Also to get rid of all vsv's and unnecessary vac hoeses that could cause vac/boost leaks
nosechunks said:
Not so. Even driving my Supra almost every weekend on a full tank of gas, I tend to go through about a tankfull a month.
Poodles said:
The people who remove it just for looks can replace it with a small hidden one. At that point it just becomes a case of being lazy maybe. Its easy to rip it out and plug the lines, but takes a few minutes to bolt a new one in.
If plugging the line and venting the cap works for you, either you:
1. Don't want paint on your car.
2. Never fill your tank.
1. Don't want paint on your car.
2. Never fill your tank.
mkIIIman089 said:
Exactly!...... I was wondering when this would get brought up. Besides all the great reasons toyota put it there. These are huge reasons not to just remove it.
The "nice man" that owned my car before me. Just removed the canister, plugged the hose and drilled the cap. Now I can't fill the tank because it will regurgitate.
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