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Sorry. I was reading too fast, "I got a permit to drive," and now I see that you were getting permission to drive with foreign plates, not getting a permit to drive, as in a temporary license. I misunderstood.

When I came back stateside in 1989 with my 1981 Camaro with T-tops, lol, a police officer pulled me over due to my license plate. It was white and said USA on it, which is an issue license plate (or was back then) to military stationed in Europe. He wanted to know what kind of license plates...

Expensive! I thought you were from Holland? You could not keep your old driver's license while you were away?

Excellent result. Like you, I am scared to start popping open panels. I would like to have front and rear cameras and a radar detector mounted, though.

Hopefully that is not too long from now, because you are wearing the tires in the exact same manner as the last tires, and exactly as fast. Last time this happened to me, it was the control arms that had worn out, resulting in both excessive camber and toe issues, worst of both worlds. It also...

I did not think you did. I was being a smart aleck. :giggle:

This quite simply is not true. Examine your own premise carefully before using it to construct your argument. A false premise frequently leads to a false conclusion. Is it true that oil temperature must rise above 100° Celsius / 212° Fahrenheit, "above boiling" (here I assume you mean the...

The dashboard video for the Steeda Mustang has oil temperature going from 190 something to 230 during a quarter mile pass: https://www.mustang7g.com/forums/threads/we-took-our-tuned-2024-mustang-to-the-dragstrip.170660/

Get those tires on a track for an HPDE day!

Photos taken during an unseasonable cold snap here in August (Georgia). Each were taken after a drive of anywhere from 10 mins to 30 mins. Ambient air temperatures are displayed, ranging from 62° to 81°. None of the pictures were taken after running a drag strip run or thirty minutes of track...

I used to have a black and gold one of those with a big gold spider on the hood (Monza Spider), a v-8, and a 4 speed. Like this:

Time to install the Interchiller!

Looking at the posted graph, it looks like maybe they got on the throttle hard above 4000 rpm, so the numbers lower are not the real output. I would guess that a Whipple supercharged engine with a 3.5 pulley would have plenty of torque down at 3500 rpm if the throttle were mashed to the floor.

If lack of a catch can really causes a carbon build up on the back of the intake valves, then we could just install breathers on the valve covers like everybody did back in the 60s, 70s, 80s and into the 90s on our older cars to relieve the pressure and let condensation go to the atmosphere...

Do they also clearly show what the back of the valves look like in the same type of engine that used a catch can? And I am not looking for reasons not to install one. I am just looking for evidence that they do anything.

A different question with a very good answer arrived at by evaluation of ample evidence for its effectiveness in preventing an actual issue.

and 226 oil temperature. 115° - yipes.

I guess that is what I am asking. What is the risk/reward calculation, and what is the evidence for it? I think I reject the notion that "gunk" in the catch can by itself is evidence that the can is doing anything beneficial. LOL about the too much time on my hands. Maybe so. The problem...

Zig, thanks. Just to be clear, I do understand what you are saying, and I also understood when I posted the original post that this is the hypothesis. Over time, there is a build up. Has this hypothesis been tested? By anybody? Has installing one (or two, lol) catch cans lead to some...