Write up: How to remove the charcoal canister

[michaelvanle]

Tools and parts needed:
-10mm socket with about a foot of extension
-vacuum hoses
-vacuum cap

This is the charcoal canister. It's supposed to be some type of fuel tank gas reduction crap. Anyways remove it if you want to, but here is what we started with.
http://home.comcast.net/~michaelvanle/cc1.jpg

There are (2) 10mm bolts that hold the canister down, and 2 more to remove the bracket. Remove these bolts and take the canister out.
http://home.comcast.net/~michaelvanle/cc2.jpg

If you look on the bottom of the passenger's side fender, this line leads to the charcoal canister. You need to unplug it to remove the bracket. Once it's unplugged the bracket just lifts up.
http://home.comcast.net/~michaelvanle/cc3.jpg

I hooked a vacuum hose to the red line and run it down to where the hole is. It just needs to vent somewhere. The green line you can cap or use it as a vacuum source. I followed that line to the passenger's side of the engine bay, and removed the line totally. Then I used that source for my boost controller.
http://home.comcast.net/~michaelvanle/cc4.jpg

This is what is removed. You can also remove the hardline that is underneath the car, but that is time consuming and have to jack up the car, so I just left it for now.
http://home.comcast.net/~michaelvanle/cc5.jpg

-michaelvanle

[Kirk]

Thanks, copied it to the Tutorial forum, good job

[Smokinsupra95]

Any noticable impact or no?

[justins_supra]

What is the benifit of doing this?

[Bean]

more room to work with under the hood... far easier to access the wiring harness if doing a swap... less vacuum lines to deal with :)

[Supraman78]

so what does it do? (charcoal canister) pros and cons of removing this?

[domantas]

where does that hardline which is under the car goes? I am the 4th owner of my supra and the line was removed and I wanna see wsp with that.

[planemos]

I think it goes to the gas tank....:dunno:

[DrNick]

Yes, the bottom line goes to the gas tank. Top ones go to the purge port and one to the pressure tank. You need to put a one way valve on the gas tank line and cap the others.