Well, I did a search and came up with a lot of posts about oil separators in s197 applications. I saw some guys saying they're a neccesary item for supercharged cars especially, others were saying it was a normal design for the 05-up Mustangs.

I know kind of sorta of what it does, but I have no idea which direction to go in terms of brand, or if I should do oil breather, oil separator, or crankcase vent? Am I correct on those being the options? Also, being those guys were talking about the S197s in nearly every post I found, are us SN95 guys any different?

I remember there being a very very thin coat of oil on the intake tube where it sleeved into the throttle body, but I guess I just thought it was normal...also at that time period I was getting blow by from a damaged piston and thought it was related to that. Perhaps it was, but I didn't drive the car to find out ya know.

Anyways, just wanted to see if anyone could help lead me in the right direction. Do I do it, or not...if I do, what direction do I go with it? It's not an extremely expensive mod for preventitive purposes, even if it's unneccesary, but I guess I'd like having a better understanding.

Thanks

 

Bump, I want to know too

 

i have a steeda oil separator and do not have one drop of oil in it, i thought maybe i hooked it up wrog but the tuner looked at it also and said its fine, before i put it on i would get a little oil in the intake of the sc.

 

The steeda is nice but a pretty much exact replica can be made with parts from lowes for less money. I think the DIY is on stangnet.com. I did it back in the day on my 96 that was N/A with 195k and it would get a good bit of oil in it between changes and such.

 

I was running one on my Procharger setup and it worked pretty well. Before i used to get some oil in the intake. I would definitely save the money and DIY with parts from a hardware store as stated above.

 

I went ahead to the hardware store yesterday and got some pieces to install an oil seperator in my car. Ill post some pics.

 

They're not an absolute necessity. If you're getting oil in your intake then it's something to think about. On my application I just have breathers on each valve cover, but never any oil seepage or saturation in the breathers, so I'm not too concerned about a separater.