[cycletime71]

Some Ducati enthusiasts are eliminating the bulky charcoal canister and plugging up the line's with some bolts to improve the looks of their bike's. I'm not a fan of this hunk of plastic either but I didn't want to just eliminate it all together as it does serve some function. And why not add some bling in the process.

I found a nice machined aluminum oil catch can on Ebay and went to work custom fitting it to my Icon. I removed the the original canister/extra hardware and just used the supplied bracket and marked for hole's to drill and tap for mounting screws. A little bit of double sided foam tape between the can and bracket secured with on two 3mm allen cap head bolts locks it in place. the supplied barbed fittings work perfectly in cleanly routing the three line's. The very top line comes from the gas tank. The front side mounted line recirculates back into the intake track while the bottom line runs up to the underside of the gas tank and just vents off there.

These cans are available in anodized black and machined silver. I went with the silver to match the machined engine case. The only thing missing is the charcoal itself which is meant to neutralize the gas smell but I don't smell any fumes at all with this mod. The bike runs great, no different with the original charcoal can in place but looks much better in my eye's.

 

[tonyjuliano]

Yeah... If there is no charcoal then it's not doing anything. Might as well as just removed it.


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[scramblinman]

Can you use the charcoal from the stock canister and insert into the new can?

 

[DJKham]

The charcoal canister does nothing. Bikes outside the U.S. (Spec model) don't even have them. There's no harm in removing it. To each their own for aesthetics though.

 

[cycletime71]

I haven't torn into my original can in case I need to put it back on for warranty reasons. The aftermarket can is a one piece machined unit and is hollowed out from the small openings that the top and bottom barbs are threaded into. So inserting a charcoal filter would need to be in a narrow tube connected to the top barb, sort of like a filter on a cigarette. I didn't want to just remove and cap the line's because I believe negative pressure could possibly build. As fuel level decreases the tank needs air for it to not create a vacuum and I wasn't sure if this was it's primary source of air. This aluminum can will also catch and hold any excess gas that might overflow into it from heat expansion or from possibly riding wheelies.