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Old Mar 29, 2006 | 09:44 AM
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i always see sweat bands on like like covers for brake fluid/tranny/ ect... is it just to look good or what? heres a pic

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Old Mar 29, 2006 | 09:49 AM
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Its to soak up any fluids coming out of your resevoirs while autocrossing or hardcorning.

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Old Mar 29, 2006 | 10:09 AM
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I love when people put those in their mod list. Ooooh, Spoon resevoir covers.

 
Old Mar 29, 2006 | 10:26 AM
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can i use some nike sweat bands and put "nike resevoir covers" in my mod list?




i'm joking... i'll let my fluids flow however they want and i won't restrict that.
 
Old Mar 29, 2006 | 10:54 AM
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on my car, i have cheap wrist bands on my valve cover breathers, because at high rpm the amount of crankcase pressure will push some oil out and it makes the valve covers oily, and it creates some smoke...some guys pay for fancy foam covers that say "moroso" or whatever, but any 99 cent pair of wrist bands from kmart works just as well.
 
Old Mar 29, 2006 | 01:47 PM
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ahhh ic ic..thanks,i thought it was just to look good or not to get your hands dirty or somthing
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Old Mar 31, 2006 | 05:05 AM
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ORIGINAL: Patrick

on my car, i have cheap wrist bands on my valve cover breathers, because at high rpm the amount of crankcase pressure will push some oil out and it makes the valve covers oily, and it creates some smoke...some guys pay for fancy foam covers that say "moroso" or whatever, but any 99 cent pair of wrist bands from kmart works just as well.
does this mean you can be shooting oil into the throttle body via the CAI if it goes out of the breather tube abd into the CAI?
 
Old Mar 31, 2006 | 08:56 AM
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youd need a hell of alot of crankcase pressure, but yes...i have even seen some people make oil catch cans to go between the breather tube and the CAI...
 
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