Oil catch can installed less than $20

[D-money]

IF you look at the flow of the pcv system the port on that valve cover is an inlet

[sliDingSolAra...]

has anyone been collecting a noticeable amount of oil in the catch?? i just installed a custom made one and haven't noticed much of anything

[02slera]

D-money is right. Your catch can is in the wrong place.
the pcv valve lets crankcase gases escape the engine and dumps them into the intake manifold. the hose that goes from the intake plenum to the valve cover is supposed to flow filtered air from the intake plenum (after the air filter) into the valve cover. looks like your catch can needs to be between the pcv valve and the intake manifold.

here's a quote from wikipedia to back up this claim:
"The PCV system usually consists of the breather tube and the PCV valve. The breather tube connects the crankcase to a clean source of fresh air—the air cleaner body. Usually, clean air from the air cleaner flows into this tube and into the engine after passing through a screen, baffle, or other simple system to arrest a flame front, to prevent a potentially explosive atmosphere within the engine crank case from being ignited from a back-fire in to the intake manifold. The baffle, filter, or screen also traps oil mist, and keeps it inside the engine.

Once inside the engine, the air circulates around the interior of the engine, picking up and clearing away combustion byproduct gases, including a large amount of water vapor which includes dissolved chemical combustion byproducts, then exits through another simple baffle, screen, or mesh to trap oil droplets before being drawn out through the PCV valve, and into the intake manifold."