This is a strange one. Am watching this with interest.
Re breathers I always remember that the big 'Y' pipe goes on the outside pipes. The left middle (as you look at engine) is the pipe on left hand of breather box and the right one for the right middle (if that makes sense lol)
Chris, re your experiment on your amended breather box. How does it work that you increased oil consumption? I just cant work out why increasing the diameter of a small pipe would see increased consumption Presumably it was being burned in the c. chamber? Therefore you'd have had blue smoke? Just trying to understand for my own learning
Ok so pipes on the back of plenum.
Two y shaped pipes go to the big nipple on the breather box by cylinder 5, this is unrestricted.
The bigger of the two middle pipes, iirc, goes to the small nipple ion the breather box behind cylinder 5.
It's this small nipple that has the restriction of a 0.5mm hole, or whatever size it is. That whole limits the amount of vapour that the plenum vacuum can pull from the crank case, presumably just enough to hold it a few psi just below atmospheric pressure. Make it bigger, and the plenum pulls more vacuum and hence more vapour. This is necessary to stop blow by combustion gasses pressurising the crank case.
Vapour removed equals oil removed from the crank case and burnt via combustion of the engine.
I haven't fully understood why the unrestricted y shape breather outlet doesn't remove even more oil, but I presume that set of pipe work goes to different holes in the plenum with a different vac rate. Probably pre throttle.
What I have understood though, is don't opps about with it