Looking good. Like the filters! There has to be at least 2x the filter area of the standard set up.
So, might be a silly question....the air/oil seperator looks like something you’d run on a compressor outlet to get clean moisture/ oil free air. This is connected to the crank case breather, right? I can’t quite see where the hose ends. So the moisture you saw initially....do you think this vapour just boiling off as the oil warms up? Then looks like oil vapour from the crank case, as looks like it’s mixing with the water after your run, giving you the oil/ water emulsion in the catch glass. Is this in the name of seeing what's going on? as you could just vent to air via a filter, correct? I’ve played around with crank case venting on my cars...two crank case vents to an oil separator...just wire mesh...oil vapour condenses on the mesh and drips into a catch can...which also vents to atmosphere via filter. I get oil, but I’ve never looked at any moisture content. I’d be tempted to try something similar...but as you mention, size is a real constraint. I think I’d probably not want to catch the water and avoid the oil/water emulsion clean up from the catch glass.
From your tests, do you think it’s positives throughout the Rev range? I wonder if Norton ever tested/ experimented with airbox volumes..or were they designed for aesthetics and the volume was simply what it was as a result of the design?
Sounds like you are really allowing the engine to breath better from the inlet side with performance gains! Do you think there are any negatives to venting the crank case to atmosphere vs to an airbox, where you’d get positive crank case ventilation? I guess PCV better for emissions. Of course you could connect the vent to the exhaust via a lambda bung if you don’t use them.....think I might want it a bit further down stream..hmm..not sure!
Awesome pioneering work there though! Always find this stuff interesting!
