sweat bands on engine covers?? whats its purpous

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03-29-2006, 09:44 AM

mill$civic

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sweat bands on engine covers?? whats its purpous

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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03-29-2006, 09:49 AM

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RE: sweat bands on engine covers?? whats its purpous

Its to soak up any fluids coming out of your resevoirs while autocrossing or hardcorning.

Berz out.

03-29-2006, 10:09 AM

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RE: sweat bands on engine covers?? whats its purpous

I love when people put those in their mod list. Ooooh, Spoon resevoir covers.

03-29-2006, 10:26 AM

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RE: sweat bands on engine covers?? whats its purpous

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.

03-29-2006, 10:54 AM

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RE: sweat bands on engine covers?? whats its purpous

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.

03-29-2006, 01:47 PM

mill$civic

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RE: sweat bands on engine covers?? whats its purpous

ahhh ic ic..thanks,i thought it was just to look good or not to get your hands dirty or somthing
..good stuff

03-31-2006, 05:05 AM

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RE: sweat bands on engine covers?? whats its purpous

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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.

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?

03-31-2006, 08:56 AM

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RE: sweat bands on engine covers?? whats its purpous

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...