Started to fit my s/c today. Pulled the air cleaner off ,and the bastard was full of oil.
so I started the motor up again, and checked for blowby. Had none. So Im thinking maybe it was a bit overfull of oil.
I know that guys who run sidesuckers use a catch can for crankcase venting. Are these motors prone to spitting out oil if they are reved hard?(Ive been giving her death) Or do you think it may have been overfull.(I'll dip the crankcase tommorow)
Back to the fun.
I bolted up the intake runners and sat the s/c in the mounting cradle. Suddenly boo hoo. The manifold which had not been fitted up since I took the peices to a mate for tig welding no longer lined up! Plus with the head sitting higher that it had for the fit up due to the head saver shim, the flexable hose I'll be using to join the blower manifold to the intake runner, is perilously close to the extractor primary pipe from number one. So, now instead of putting it all together at last, I have to re design the blower manifold and intake runner to 1 and 2.
I guess this isn't a bad thing in the long run as it will reduce disparity between the total intake lengths from the blower to the head for the front two and rear two cylinders.

the crankcase breather does blow any oil at all really, in my experience, only one that ive seen doing it was my mates and his motor was totally screwed, sorry to say, i hope you overfilled it but even so it would have to be very overfilled to cause problems i would think

One other thing I didn't mention ,was that I have swapped the springs from between the rocker arms for bushes. The idea behind this is to prevent the rocker arms from migrating under extreme overreving (8000+)
and snapping the pushrods. But I dunno if this could cause oil to get past the baffle and out the nipple in the rocker cover.
I'm not too phased anyhow, a bit of wayward oil might help lube the blower lobes. Or not.

a14force, good to hear you are getting close to fitting that blower!
just reading your description of the intake manifold problems, i faced similar probs and had to constantly re-adjust where everything was sitting. have a look at the photos of my manifold and you will see the funny shape that it ended up being...
with the oil prob- hmmmmm, my little motor has got an oil catch can and i have to say it does blow a bit when i am giving it herbs. don't know that it would be as much you mention though....

She wasn't chocka with oil, but there was enough for me to say hmmm.
Still, no biggie though.

hey blown1400 u got ur msn messenger yet? oops wrong way round, doesnt matter, with oil catch cans do u have the line going into the can near the top with a drain back pipe in the bottom of the can or what someone explain. im starting to make up my brackets for my s/c now thing we are trying to work out is which way to make the manifold????? i might do a couple of drawings maybe someone can tell me which will be best.

I dunno which way is "best" but my s/c is mounted with the carb hole looking straight up and the discharge port looking straight down. (a bit like the B&M blower equiped 1400 in a morris minor in the photo album)
Does anyone know what the proper oil capacity is for the toyota s/c units?

hey kegs, leave the msn messenger with me- tonight i will definitely do it.

several schools of thought on the manifold for the s/c. my thoughts were that the manifold is a chamber that gets pressurised (with fuel and air) by the s/c- then when the valves open that pressurised mix attempts to equalise the cylinder and fills the cylinder to the same pressure.

i therefore created a plenum chamber (of sorts) which allowed me to place the blower wherever i wanted in relation to the inlet ports. does that make sense? if i am speaking chinese let me know and i will try and post some explanatory photos (with the help of Lobster- thanks by the way Lobster, appreciated)...