it's an emissions device..... takes the place of the vented gas cap on old cars ...... if you remove it there will be a nasty gas smell, and prolly a CEL also
What it actually does is take the fumes from the gas tank, run them through a charcoal filter (the canister itself), and into the intake manifold itself where they are burned by the engine during the combustion process....
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there has to be a way to remove or relocate it however.....
You can remove the charcoal canister. a little mods on the charcoal canister solenoid is necessary to be done in order to not have an error code on the ECU (indeed this solenoid is noticed as an input device on the ECU)
I've done this Mods on my Familia GTR and I have no problem at all.
* on the top of the charcoal canister, there is 2 hoses. one from the line who comes from the fuel tank and another one who comes from the intake manifold.
- remove the canister and both the hoses.
The idea is to replace the canister with a fuel hose with a little filter who will go under the chassis.
Here the charcoal canister =
For the curious like me, and to answer to
J_man, yes there is charcoal inside the canister (little grains) =
Here the Hose with the small filter =
* So, in place of the hose who comes from the fuel tank line you can fit now your new hose with the filter. This hose will run under the chassis.
* for the second hose (from the intake manifold) you had to block up this line.
(this line will be use later for your Turbo upgrade if you want to fit a boost gauge :mrgreen: )
on my Familia it's like this =
(the charcoal canister was situated on the circle)
* Now there is a last thing to do...
- take a little hose and now just link up the "in" to the "out" on the solenoid like that =
IMPORTANT = You can remove the canister but you can't remove the charcoal canister solenoid, it had to be always connected (plug)
I hope it will help you guys
