No unnecessary yammering no gimmicks. Straight to the point. Great comparison video. Earned my thums up and sub. Thanks for making this vid.

Its about time someone called out Mishimoto on this.

I'm from saudi and I had the misimoto ordered but when I saw this video I canceled and ordered one like the knock off you have ... thank you so much this was so informative. Appreciated

Most likely answer is that Mishimoto cheaped out on production by having a Chinese manufacturer construct their cans, and the manufacturer decided to cut into their profits and take a chunk for themselves by re-branding the exact same parts they produce with a generic label and cut down price. Chinese manufacturing companies undercut their foreign contractors all the time because once they've gotten the blueprints, there's no legal recourse to keep them from re-branding the parts they already tooled their lines to produce.

nice review i was just going to buy an expensive one and found this on amazon for £14, great job dude

Love this comparison. More of those

I was thinking the same thing. Thank you for doing the work and the confirmation!

I would say, in all cases, keep the $15 can. Just go to the hardware store and buy the right size fittings for your application. Maybe cost another $5. $20 vs. $120 is a no brainer.

I bought two of the cheap ones. Upgraded the hose fittings to 19mm brass barbs. Now I’m running dual catch cans at a fraction of the cost. Of a genuine mishimoto

Thanks for the review, I used your review to purchase mine. I made a video and mentioned your video in my description! Thanks alot!

Great video for those of us who want a quality product at a fair price. Currently the price on Amazon is $25.99 Feb.2021

Thanx from Germany...after your comparison, I bought the generic universal knock off for not even 20€. It works just fine in my Audi S3 @420HP

Installing one on my 2012 Cadillac cts coupe lfx 3.6 , I would take the Tracy Lewis RX catch can but for the meantime this will do versus Nothing🤙Thanks for the info and video!! Good job👍

Thank you very much for the great comparison, it was really useful!

Good lookin out bro!! I couldn’t bring myself to drop $300+ on a Vargas external PVC system. I went eBay, and after watching this I feel much better

Mine arrived today, look and feel is great, figure it out tomorrow with install

Great video! Super helpful. Will be purchasing the off brand with better fittings.

NEVER saw the sense in paying stoopid $$$$$$$$ for a brand name whatever. Except hard parts like cranks, valves, springs, injectors, intakes, etc. Hell you could even BUILD your own catch can, if you are so inclined. I bought a couple of cheapo ones off ebay. Work perfectly fine, catch all the oil vapor, I empty them out every 3rd or 4th fillup. I also added extra steel wool in the can to catch more vapor. Tried it inits original configuration, then added the steel wool, IMO that made it work much better.

Good stuff my guy. I wanted to try the unbranded Chinese myself as I thought exactly what you're describing. But I am doing brakes and tyres this month on my 2011 TTS with 40k miles. Doing them together seems a big bill but it has to be done sooner or later. I am thinking doing a video that I can't find here for some budget but popular tyres that I've seen in a good price. 255/35/19 tyres aren't cheap if you want to go for a reputable brand, cheapest reputable tyres are TOYO PROXES Sport which I know they're good but if tyres with 30-40% less money are equally good why not? Knowledge is power and we should share it. Keep them coming brother. Peace

The mildly bored tone lends itself well to this. Just checked the knockoff I ordered and it comes with 10mm inside diameter hose and fittings. Thanks for pointing out.

Thanx bro... I recently bought an oil catch can from bullboost performance it's exactly da same that those 2 i will try to put it on tomorrow n hope that really do his job. For a 2011 Chevy Colorado 2.9 street race n drift project Saludos desde Ensenada México

Nice review, short and sweet

Dude you need to make more videos. Str8 to the point . Awesome

Great review! Thanks for doing this. I have the cheap kind for almost 4 years now. Recently it started leaking from that bottom plug. The teltail that it's leaking or sucking air is when you see the oil it's catching looks like a milky light brownish fluid instead of this blackish oil That you usually get. Frothing-Thats when fine air bubbles mixes with the oil and gets agitated. I was very tempted to buy the original Moshimoto model to replace it. But what I did instead is just clean the thread of that bottom plug with acetone, and apply Permatex black gasket maker. Applied it in both the plug threads and the can's threads. make sure no excess gasket maker goes inside of the can. Also applied it to the 2 hose Barb threads. Let it dry for 24 hours as the permatex black gasket maker instruction says. I also replaced the big O-ring, and the two small ones on the hose barbs. Now it works again like a champ with no leak. The two small # 21 O-rings I got from Taylor do it store, and the big one from amazon, dimension 54x58x2( 54mm ID x 58mm OD x 2mm width), or the 54x60x3 also works. they came in 10 pack.

Almost bought a mishimoto super glad I did not saved me a bunch of money!

I’ve had the knock off version for two weeks. Works phenomenally.

Thank you. No fluff straight to business.

I bought the knock off last year for my Chevy and it works as intended.

I love the “I don’t give a shit attitude”. Made for an entertaining watch.

Thank you, that was very helpful.

Excellent comparison: Is there a knock off of the better model Misimoto catch can ?

Interesting video! On orifice size- flow does not matter but velocity does matter so going with bigger orifices is better because the velocity is reduced and will allow contaminants to drop out.

thanks! Buying larger inlets shouldn't be a problem or expensive.

Thank's a lot for this video man

Not mentioned but worth noting, the mishimoto comes with a specific mount bracket for some cars. That is added to the cost and ease of mounting to your vehicle. Also, the mishimoto comes with custom lenght and molded/shaped hoses which if like my car, if the hoses were not pre-shaped, custom formed, i would have had nearly no way to route and connect to my manifold. Also, a way to tell if the mishimoto is made in china, im not saying it is or isnt, it will say on the box made in china. I bought mine 4 years ago so i have no box to look at. The companies in china can make product's look 99% like american made products. Thats what they do exceptionally well.

Great video, thank you for the info

Thanks for posting, I just ordered the knock off lol :)

Great stuff, Thank you!

Great comparision! Thanks for this vid. I have a question: does the bronze filter attaches to the inlet or outlet?

Thank you for the very informative video

For us Canadians, the Mishimoto would cost about $300 to get your hands onto it, got my eBay unbranded from NJ for less than $100 CAD

Cheers, you just saved me a lot of money too. I nearly bought a Mishimoto, this exact model, then did a last minute KZfaq search, found this video, then went right onto Ali-express and bought the exact same thing for about 1/10th the price. The one I ordered also has the correct (for my car) 1/2" sized hose barb connector bits, and a little drain lever for the bottom to save removing the canister lower half to drain the oil each time. It's such a simple thing, and it saves GDI engines, so i don't know why the auto manufacturers don't include something like this to filter the oily gasses from the PCV -- from factory. I guess if they did, people wouldn't know to empty them periodically and they'd overflow back into the intake...

Thanks for info whatever you do dont try to sound too excited 😆

Nice info! Where can a guy find the push lock fittings like the factory ones on the u tube where we are hooking this catch can up?

Thanks for the video!

Nice thanks for the vid!

Great work

Man, would have been nice for a link to the knock off...as finding the exact one might be difficult with the numerous one's looking similar! Unsure of why some have/need their own breather as well?

Great video!

Great vid

Great video! Would a filter on top help aswell? I seen on amazon same company sell one with a filter. Would that help you in the winter with the water build up?

good review

I'm gonna go return Mishimoto one tomorrow thank you $250 saved

2:34 You mention the threads as being the same on both, but the less expensive one on the right seems to have O-Ring Boss threads (confirmed by the O-ring) which are of constant diameter, and the other (on the left) uses NPT threads which increase in diameter making them snug up when screwed in. The latter needing PTFE tape as well. (Also the size of the O-Ring Boss appears to be -6AN.)

Thanks for this

Look and feels the same. well done good. BUT ... do both WORK the same? Are both just as EFFECTIVE (..or approximately)..?? Proof of the cake is ALWAYS in the eating.

Nice upload

I love it , unmasking them!! 👍

The hose connector threads what size are those?

The knock off,actually aint the knock off out of them two,but the mishimoto is the real knock off here,they stamp and make it just a little diffrent as you see with the plastic vs alu to safe cost, they buy them cheap and sell them with their brand for a few 100% profit on top,while in reality the name stamped is the knock off product. This happens with alot of big names and products.

Very good video, Can you please send the website link for this China Catch Can to Order it.

Hoses that goes to intake would be the one with baffled right ?? The one with just a hole would be where ccv hose would go in

Cheers form England!

I've been looking into whether this is something I might want to consider getting for my 2014 1.4L and from what I'm seeing on a Cruze Forum (link here: www.cruzetalk.com/threads/intake-valve-carbon-build-up.232057/) they're saying that this engine is actually port injected, not direct injected, which should mean fuel is blowing into the back of the intake valves and cleaning them off which should remove carbon buildup on the valves that these cans are intended to help prevent from happening. Does that sound accurate? Are there any other reasons you think I might want to install something like this on my car?

What brand is the Amazon one listed as ? Thank you for the video.

Do you think you could por seafoam into the catch can and when the engine is running it will gradually pull vacuum and atomize the seafoam into the intake and clean the valves for you?

So what you're trying to say is that they're the same?

Thank you sir

Wheres the install vid? Looking to add one to my 14 with a GTX250...its pushing some oil out...got a link to the can?

Thanks a lot

excellent

Just paying for the name. Does the same job, some, not all👍🏼

I bought a knock off from amazon that looks pretty similar, only problem was leaking oil from the bottom bolt. I ended up sealing all the hardware with gasket maker and that was an easy fix. Recently I tried to "blow air" with my mouth into one of the hose and tested the amount of air that was getting out from the other side and I've noticed that was surely restricted. Does mishimoto one have the same air restriction of the knock off version?

This is an old video, but what about in winter climates where it gets down to -30C. Are oil catch can fine then or will they freeze?

I bought the misimoto catch can and im installing it in my sport civic and its a turbo hatchback i was thinking the knockoff one was bit small for the ports flow.

Rwgards to the sintered bronze filter baffle, does it need cleaning once its filled with oil etc? and how do we clean it? or needs replacement? a couple of sites mentiomed such filter needs ultrasonic cleaning....true?

with more videos like this, we will get world peace! - Thanks a lot!

You’re a hero.

greetz from germany nice vid

a cheap version of an oil catcher is not a fake, but a product without a sticker of any brand, mishimoto is just a customer company that buys from a Chinese manufacturer and sells under its own name for 10 times more expensive

What size ID rubber fuel tube fits the supplied 2 nozzles?

If i wanted to change the inlet and outlet sizes to a 1/2 inch hose diameter, where could I find some that will have the same thread? Thanks

The key words are: BOTH MADE IN CHINA! (4:02). Either you buy one "as per designer specs" at 150$ and you get it in six days, or you buy the "maybe it will work" at 15$, the manufacturing scrap (loose thread, diminished flow...) with delivery in 30 days, your money GO to China! The money will come back to double the price of your house and make impossible for your kids to buy one, or they will pay all their life the mortgage to China. This movie is a very good lesson of political economics! Thumbs up!

What’s the name for the generic one

Im still getting quite a bit of oil in im intake should the broze filter be filtering the oli coming in or the air going out

Buyer beware.The only problem is that it doesn't function the same. Upon further research there are plenty of Amazon reviews complaining about knock off leaking or falling to work as expected. This review is superficial. The higher price tag on M brand is because they had to engineer , promote, and produce while offering a lifetime warranty, so they have to recuperate the investment somehow. Higher overhead means a higher asking price.

Ben Stein? Good comparison vid.

I've always scratched my head every time I seen the photos in the descriptions either which on Amazon or ebay and they all look the same it's just a brand they're trying to sell you

Yep, Mishimoto is just a cheap arse chinese knock off with a higher price. Thanks for posting this. The mishimoto adds won't show what's inside. That brass filter will clog up in no time. So I'll go with one that has the stainless steel "brillo pad" as a filter as it will flow much better and is able to be cleaned where the brass filter is a throw away. It pays to do some reasearch when you want quality.

Hi. Can share the link for on the amazon for Generic ones. Thanks mate

I put the cheap knock off on my car and have no issues, it works just fine.

the only thing was the difference between the flow tubes .... does it make a difference in this application?

Do you know the thread size of the in and out?

I can’t find this anywhere on amazon did this get pulled?

What size hose will you need for the 3/8 size?

Did anyone try installing a catch can on the 2005-2010 Honda Odyssey? Mine has an unusual PCV shape. Please let me know if installing the catch can on the 2010 Odyssey is possible. Or does it even need one? Thank you

Hey bro what is the seller or brand. How can I buy this same catch can.

Can someone link the amazon one?

I don't think the Chinese one is a knock off product what I reckon is, it is genuine made by some low end Chinese catch can factory in China, and all these greedy big brand companies just order from them, stamped their brand on it and sell it double or triple the price.

But… are they the same?