Removing Carbon Canister Question (And few misc questions) **PICS**

[otterman]

So I've had this car for a year or so and I've finally decided to remove the canister. I live in Kansas with no smog laws and I want to clean up my engine bay.

Do I just plug these tubes off?

Here is the canister with the same color circle around where the tubes would have plugged into. Also in this pic, what is the blue thing that is circled called? Its the filter that goes before your BOV and its on your vacuum tube goes into a EBC.

When I bought the car it had a very large tube going from the cold pipe to the canister. Would normal vacuum tubing be ok to put here or do I need to buy this large kind? The pic has the nipple on the cold pipe and a picture of the tubing and a picture of a normal vacuum hose so you get the idea how large the tubing was. (book is there so the shadows and what not in the background doesnt confuse)
Modified by otterman at 9:27 PM 10/1/2006

[otterman]

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[otterman]

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[180fan]

Ok so if you're gonna pull the carbon canister, pull everything. You're gonna see there's a line that runs right up next to the fuel lines at the firewall, don't pull that and don't cap it either. But everything else the carbon canister is connected to, pull it. The carbon canister gets vac from the lower most vac nipple on the throttle body. Cap it.

Dunno why you've got that ebc filter chillin anywhere near that carbon canister. Run it off one of the two vac nipples up top on the throttle. If you've already got your bov on one and your fpr on the other, get a tee.

[otterman]

Ok so if you're gonna pull the carbon canister, pull everything. You're gonna see there's a line that runs right up next to the fuel lines at the firewall, don't pull that and don't cap it either. But everything else the carbon canister is connected to, pull it. The carbon canister gets vac from the lower most vac nipple on the throttle body. Cap it.

Dunno why you've got that ebc filter chillin anywhere near that carbon canister. Run it off one of the two vac nipples up top on the throttle. If you've already got your bov on one and your fpr on the other, get a tee.

The EBC filter wasn't with the carbon canister. I'm just rerouting all my vacuum lines trying to clean up my engine bay. I was thinking maybe I should get a new one of those cause it's look pretty rough and thought I'd add it in the picture to ask what it was called so I could get a knew one. It's setting between the BOV and the throttle body. I also got one between my EBC Solenoid and the EBC controller.

[180fan]

yeah that filter looks like it's got some oil or somethin in there. yeah that's another thing the greddy manifold has an advantage for, it's got 3 extra bungs for more vac related stuff. it's pretty awesome.

[otterman]

Any idea what those filters are called?

[180fan]

it's just a filter. iirc they come in two different sizes, an 8 and a 6mm.

[okevolution]

I would clean up that nasty hole that the hotpipe runs through. Cut out an oval shape and splice some vacuum hose or fuel line to use as a grommet. It what I did and it looks clean.