noticed something weird under the hood. Anyone know what it is?

Not sure what this is put its definitely not factory lol. Anyone know?

 

That’s a ruler bent into a mount.

 

Looks like a catch can

 

The ruler or the oil catch can?
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Oil catch can with a bent ruler mount?! Lol. Stuff like this is why I no longer drink and fabricate.

 

What the others have said. I have the same one as well. If you're just now noticing this, maybe unscrew the lower part.. might need emptying.

 

That's where you put the blinker fluid.





















Or a catch can.

 

Oil catch can, as for why a taco has it idk

 

I kinda like the ruler idea for a temp mount.

 

It's the cooling circuit for the Flux Capacitor.

 

its an oil catch can. It should be emptied out and cleaned every once in a while

 

Absolutely love the metal ruler bracket !

 

Ok thanks guys! Was kinda concerned because I had this a few days and just noticed it

 

Need to change the catch can mount to metric. Also empty the catch can periodically.

 

But i guess more of my question is why would someone put this on a NA v6? If this was a turbo or supercharger I'd understand but this seems kinda weird... I hope the previous owner knew what they were doing lol

 

The previous owner definitely knew what they were doing, with regards to the catch can, but the mount.... not so much. I have a very similar can on mine and it is full with gunk every oil change. I empty it and think, glad that gunk did not have to be burned through the motor again.

 

I do some of my best fabrication / engineering when drunk. Then clean it up the next day

 

I agree with this whole heartedly. Catch can was one of my first mods on my truck. IIRC the odo had less than 250 miles. Every other oil change, I dump out that soupy mess and it makes me glad that the mixture isn't blasting all over my intake manifold. Does it increase performance to a non blown motor? None that I can feel, but it does give me that peice of mind. You'll still get blowby on a NA motor and that junk has to go somewhere.

-J

 

No performance gains other than knowing that junk isn't getting re-ingested, but is being collected and thrown out appropriately on my NA 1GR-FE.

 

Hey man, if all you need is a scrap piece of flat stock, who cares what the raw material started as. Maybe could have painted it it to hide the numbers, but that's as solid a mount as a raw piece of aluminum flat from Lowes, etc.