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is it safe to say that catch cans need to be emptied more in the winter? colder temperatures = decrease in cylinder seal = more blow by?

Thanks for the good find. Everyone I know in Canada, Alaska, and Montana (n=3) uses the wolverine brand. They seem to have a good reputation on the internet. I'm going with them.

what state are you in? how cold was it? How long did the car sit for before starting? was it windy? We had a pretty crazy storm here in NJ this past winter where it was 30+ mph winds with an air temp in the single digits.

I know this is an old thread but I'm considering the product below. connect the positive to a switched positive so that you can turn the key with the engine off and it would warm the catch can up before starting the engine. I may install their oil pan heater as well for those cold winter...

Thanks for this!

Found that the intercooler to throttle body intake tube coupler came loose, tighten that up and the car is running much better. Still running a little rich though (14.2 ish) but at least I can go to work now. Nothing came from the boost leak test. Still hitting my boost targets but may be...

Hello everyone, The car has been running good for a while now but today it started acting up again. My first instinct was my spill valve was having issues since the symptoms felt similar. Connected the AP and took the following logs. In general the car was driving on the freeway okay but when...

Its definitely not the purge valve, did the test above and after turning the key off, pressure slowly rose to~1850. -it looks like the threads in the Cobb intake that hold the MAF screws have come loose and are coming up out of the intake body. The O-ring is fine and doesn't look like it has...

Thanks John @VTMongoose -EGR is blocked off and deleted so I doubt that's contributing but ill look into it. - I have a turboXS downpipe, not Cobb, regardless, it shouldn't be too bad of a job. I had purge valve issues when I got the car about 18 months ago and its been replaced at least a...

Once again my drive to work was much better than yesterdays. Thanks so much for the help. Everything is looking pretty a lot better but I still feel like my fuel trims are too high and inconsistent, I thought the goal was to keep these between -10 and 10, centered around 0. Mean = 2.16, Stdev =...

just got done cleaning and lubing the spill valve, I broke the O-ring and had to wait until my girl got home to borrow her car to get another o-ring. Autozone nor Advance had a 27mm O ring so i ordered some of Mcmaster for a long term install. fuel pressures are looking a lot better. I had a...

Thanks again, you lube the components with Redline S1-1? or just add it to the gas tank and go for a drive? or both?

Thank you so much for this! i am going to clean my spill valve tonight as a first measure and then buy this part if that fails

Thanks for the response. slowly got worse over the past month or so. I got my first stumbles about a month ago but it came and went, never felt like I needed to pull over. I figured since my WOT logs and idle logs looked good it was a non issue but then it just got worse and worse. I'm on a...

So unfortunately the Mazda is driving like shit these days and I'm getting desperate for some help. - Verified no vacuum leaks or boost leaks, I used the smoke method, soapy water method, and carb cleaner method. Whenever I pressurize the system, all I get is flow coming out of the valve...