what is your reasoning behind this? ive never seen anyone cap the vacuum port of the valve cover, but i have seen many guys tap the valve cover for more flow. i would probably consider leaving it open, but i guess it wouldnt be a huge deal since aeb valve covers dont have that breather

 

Think you might need to reread what I posted I didn't touch the valve cover.

My car no longer has a PCV valve, and there is a nipple on the IM specifically for connecting to the PCV valve, and I had nothing else to plug into that nipple. Manual transmission AEB engines don't have a suction pump or any of that sort of stuff, so there is normally a rubber hose that just goes from the intake manifold to the PCV valve.

 

and this is why i say i do 06a engines. either way, glad you figured it all out

 

Not quite sure what you mean 06A engines also have a PCV system, only difference is they have the suction pump and a valve cover breather. Besides, AEB engines don't have all the emissions crap (SAI, etc) to worry about

 

i was just saying i know the 06a pcv system in my head. not so much on the aeb. but my car now has no evap system, sai, a/c, n249, suction jet pump, and for a pcv system, just an open dump on the block and valve cover breathers. its so much simpler

 

Ah I see. The AEB PCV system is so much simpler! Just has the block breather, that attaches to the rubber T-piece, the PCV valve attaches to one end of the T and the metal pipe attaches to the other end of the T. The metal pipe attaches to the pancake valve in the TIP. The PCV valve hooks up to a vacuum line that goes to a vacuum connection on the intake manifold.

But if you were in CA you'd have to put all that emissions crap back on, unless you "know somebody", to pass emissions testing. I can't pass with a FMIC, adjustable FPR, fuel pressure gauge, and the list goes on... so this is one reason why AEB is nice, because I don't have to reinstall very much of that crap to pass emissions.

 

i didnt consider that. california sucks! in minnesota, there is absolutely no emissions whatsoever. literally 90% of the cars at the show i attended were not technically street legal, and they all had licsense plates

 

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Since you bumped this thread (apparently by accident) I may as well add in some info...

After reading some more I've now come to the conclusion that my idle issue was caused directly by the 034 Motorsport billet PCV valve. There have been a number of threads where people tested it vs. a new stock PCV valve and found their idles to suck with the 034 piece. If I had known this I could have saved myself $450+... Soon I'm gonna throw in the normal PCV system stuff, with a new (stock) PCV valve. Then I'll do a back-to-back comparison with the 034 PCV valve and see how the results compare.