This is it! I'm finally calling my oil return widget finished! More or less 6 months of weekends in the making - summarised in a couple of pictures....
The last one wasn't going to cut it with just hose barbs and no breather. Without wanting to knock up another prototype - I had a go with some CAD designs and came up with this which was still able to be made in my shed with the stuff and tools I have.
Which turned into this...
Cool! Ordered some -8 AN fittings having not much experience with all the different types of hoses and fittings. Safe to say this size and type of fitting wasn't going to work...
That's okay - i'll keep these fittings for the next bigger project. I thought I would downsize to -6AN and try the pushlock type of hose from aeroflow and be a bit more accurate with the angles they needed to be. Took a while but I ended up at this; (there's a photo below of a blue line - this gave me the idea for the pushlock type hose. Super easy to use and low profile fittings)
Then
Clears the exhaust nicely and the oil feed line is in too. Just need to make up a little P clamp to hold it properly and out of the way. I'll feed the line with the black fitting to a catch can / breather set up.
Finally happy with this set up. Hopefully the oil filler widget that will go on the bell housing wont be as difficult. I will work an oil return and breather into that too from the cylinder head.
In other news I had a play with the timing cover. Countersunk some screw heads and got everything sitting nicely.
I also gave the 998 a pressure wash and degrease and pulled the gearbox off. The gearbox is in pretty good nic but I've got a reconditioning kit for it. Just waiting for the gearbox to come back from the machine shop where it's getting washed and also having a cam shaft getting the lobes ground off for the oil pump jack shaft.
Can anyone flick me a link for the T piece that I'll need for the oil feed line out of the block so that I can still run an oil pressure gauge? Can't seem to find that anywhere.
Next up on the list is making a head gasket, rebuilding the gearbox. Stay tuned and like always - don't hold your breath!