Oil Catch cans for Infinity Q50

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My grandson bought a 2022 Infinity Q50 last summer, and a friend of his has an identical car and recommended he install a catch can to protect the turbo. Is I look at them, I see them from $20 to $300. I've read that some of the cheaper ones might not have baffles, or might be restricted, be just empty cans, have poorer quality or smaller hoses, etc.

Does anyone have experience or have seen the insides?
Anyone know of a sweet spot in the price/quality?
 
I have two of this one on my Spider, one between the PCV valve and the manifold, and another in the hose between the factory air/oil separator and to where it vents to the intake air hose right in front of the turbo. You can find this exact can for anywhere between $10 and $100+, depending on which site you buy from (Ebay, Aliexpress, Temu, whatever). I think I paid $15-ish with shipping.

The hose it comes with is garbage, I immediately threw it away. I didnt use the filter on either can I have.

I about tripled the amount of (stainless) steel wool inside the can versus what they provided. The can has an internal baffle on the inlet, I drilled a series of small holes in it to increase the flow as it seemed a tiny bit restrictive. I also used very thin aluminum sheet and fabricated an additional internal baffle to separate the flow between the inlet and outlet, to channel the airflow more down into the steel wool before exiting.

The can between the factory air/oil separator and the turbo, which I've had on there for a couple years now, catches a lot of watery, oily goop, anywhere from 1/4 inch to an inch or so deep between 5K oil change intervals depending on the time of year (much more in winter than summer). The can between the PCV valve and the manifold I havent checked, it has only been on there for about 6K miles so I havent emptied it yet, but according to the dipstick, its definitely capturing... something.

I've used similar-looking cans that did not have any internal baffling or anything else, and captured very little. At a minimum you want to pack it with stainless steel wool, that certainly helped the first, empty cheapy I had a few years ago. Adding baffles only helps more.

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Mishimoto makes a pretty good unit that's not terribly overpriced.


Regardless what you install, definitely upgrade the hoses to a higher temperature rated, oil-rated hose. I really like Parker 836 hose because it's easy to use with push-lok barb fittings and has a rating to 150C, which is quite a bit higher than the typical 100c rating of many cheap push-lok hoses (like "jiffy hose").

Don't use clamps on push lok hose for an application like this-- they can only degrade the hose and don't add any needed capability.

-6 hose is about perfect for a catch can application.
 
I used a Mishimoto catch can for a while and was impressed with its build quality. After a few years, I went back to the OEM setup because I was sick of emptying it between oil changes, and I figured the OEM setup was made to digest the blowby. I was not running any sort of aftermarket tune.
 
My grandson bought a 2022 Infinity Q50 last summer, and a friend of his has an identical car and recommended he install a catch can to protect the turbo. Is I look at them, I see them from $20 to $300. I've read that some of the cheaper ones might not have baffles, or might be restricted, be just empty cans, have poorer quality or smaller hoses, etc.

Does anyone have experience or have seen the insides?
Anyone know of a sweet spot in the price/quality?
It's such a ridiculous idea. A solution in search of a problem.
 
What are you seeing that would make you think it needs a catch can? Usually it's a bandaid instead of fixing the PCV correctly or really worn out engines with lots of blow by (which it doesn't fix).
 
What are you seeing that would make you think it needs a catch can? Usually it's a bandaid instead of fixing the PCV correctly or really worn out engines with lots of blow by (which it doesn't fix).
Nothing. Just checking on a recommendation from a friend of my Grandson instead of believing him to be an expert.
 
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