The time has come again to find out whose car will reign supreme this month for CorkSport’s Featured Car of the Month!
Last month we had a face-off between Sam’s Speed3 and Katsu’s Mazda 6. This month we had some more great submissions! At random, the following two were chosen to face-off. Christian Prichard’s 2011 Mazdaspeed 3 and Edward Loeffler’s 2009 Mazda 3S 5 Door Hatchback!
Christian’s car was featured last year in the CorkSport booth at Mazfest and includes a CorkSport FMIC, CorkSport Downpipe, CorkSport Racepipe,Cat Back Exhaust, BBS rims and much much more.
Local CS customer, Edward is just over the river in Portland. Some of his many mod’s include a CorkSport Power Series Intake, CorkSport Sway Bar, an OEM MazdaSpeed3 Exhaust Straight Pipe to Tip w/ 1st Cat Delete & Resonator Delete, Carbon Fiber Front Tower Brace, and again, much, much more!
Vote for your favorite today on our Facebook page or commenting right here on our blog!
Want to face-off for one of our monthly features? Submit a pic of your car and list of mod’s to
gwynne@corksport.com
Gwynne-
Unlike other catch cans on the market that simply expect the contaminates to fall out of the PCV vapors, our newly released oil catch can has a unique cyclonic vacuum design that forces contaminants to the walls of the can before the air can move back into the intake system. This Solidworks simulation shows how the system was designed. You can see that the air swirls around the outside of the can trapping the contaminants at the wall. This allows them to fall through a disk that is welded between two chambers used to separate the PCV vapors and the contaminants. Once the contaminants are separated you can view them with a sight tube located on the side of the catch can.
We were particularly surprised to see how much water vapor builds up in the crank case of these cars. After a few miles of driving with the catch can on our shop Mazdaspeed 3, we could really see what separates our catch can from the competition. After only 500 miles we had separated out a great deal of contaminants from the PCV system. Most of which was water vapor that had been trapped in the PCV lines and engine block. This alone should ensure that oil doesn’t break down quickly on our DISI MZR engine.
As you can see from the picture this is something you don’t want getting back into your engine. We took this sample and sent it out for particulate analysis. The results really prove that you don’t want this in your engine. Along with a large amount of oil, which can be seen, there was metal and water present in the oil. All of which we don’t want to be reburned in our engine or stuck to the back of our valves.
Even though it took a little longer than we expected to release this, I’m sure everyone will agree that there are certain things you want done right and somethings are worth the wait. When it comes down to it there are just some contaminants that you never want entering your motor. Most of them are listed on the sheet to the right.
