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What aftermarket parts are these and what are their purposes?

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Hi,
I picked up this Grom from Facebook Marketplace in December.
Rode it for a bit but kept it in the garage till the weather warmed up, and now it has.
So I started taking all the fairing off and plan on doing a once over on the bike before I really start riding it all the time.
There are a TON of aftermarket upgrades on this bike, but I came across 2 that I cant really figure out what they are
And when I google them I cant seem to find anything so figured I would post it here.
I lost the phone number from the guy I bought it from...

Here are 3 pics.
I dont understand what the point is of this hose, is it just for venting?
and then what is this white thing that has this air filter at the end of it and what is its purpose?

Thank you in advance!
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is that a bolt stuck into the end of the hose? Or is it a one way valve of some kind or? Could be a ghetto crank case breather if it's a higher compression piston or revv'ing higher than stock?

Where does the other end of the hose coming out of the white cylinder go? Almost looks like an equally ghetto catch can.

What other mods were done, maybe that'll help us narrow down what's going on and/or why they're there.
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Definitely looks like a homebrew crankcase vent and catch can like spencermarkd said.
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I dug threw my phone and glad I took a screenshot of the listing. Here is the list of parts that the ad shows, I need to go through the bike in detail. It is fast tho, I have a another 2022 grom that has a few aftermarket parts on it but this 2015 Grom smokes it.. I believe it was a pit bike and used to stunt.. which is what I plan on doing with it too.
The bike is at my office, when I have time later today Ill try and take a few more pics of these 2 parts.. its funny, they spent alot of money on some parts but then still have stock air filter
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Here are some more pics.. Looking at the FB post my guess is these are either custom oil catch can, crank case vent mod, and/or oil pump pickup mod.
What are their purposes?
And are there some legit alternatives that I can replace these with if these are more Ghetto Fabs?
Also need to do a full flush and replace of the fluids.
Bought some new fairings for it, new knob tires, and some rearsets.
May an aftermarket air intake and PC to go with the exhaust.
Might get some new sprockets but not sure on that yet
Thank you in advance

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Yup, they're the catchcan and crankcase vent "mods". Oil pump pickup will be down in the bottom of the engine case on the inside, it'll pull oil from more rear-wards so you don't run your pump dry and lose oil pressure when doing long term wheelies.

Crankcase breather lets gasses that slip by the piston rings during normal engine use escape out of the crankcase more easily. If you build up too much pressure in your crankcase you can start pushing oil out past seals and it's not a good time.
Looks like they bought an actual kit for that one: NCY Oil Cap Crankcase Decompression Tube M20x2.5p

I'll be honest and say I don't know why the did both a breather and a catch can, since that catch can is vented and not run back to the air box at all.. kind of weird.. you could run something like this and rid yourself of both: 616-1432200 Kitaco Oil Catch Can - '13-'20 Honda GROM / GROM SF - IN STOCK

Usually you only see these mods on big bore or high compression engines. With the standalone ecu, cam, and injector I'm not super surprised the old owner put one on.

With the aftermarket injector and cam, a powercommander might be a bitch, just saying. if it runs well I'd leave the ecu the previous owner had on there alone or try to find where he got it and see if they can re-tune that for an intake swap rather than starting from scratch with a PC.

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Yup, they're the catchcan and crankcase vent "mods". Oil pump pickup will be down in the bottom of the engine case on the inside, it'll pull oil from more rear-wards so you don't run your pump dry and lose oil pressure when doing long term wheelies.

Crankcase breather lets gasses that slip by the piston rings during normal engine use escape out of the crankcase more easily. If you build up too much pressure in your crankcase you can start pushing oil out past seals and it's not a good time.
Looks like they bought an actual kit for that one: NCY Oil Cap Crankcase Decompression Tube M20x2.5p

I'll be honest and say I don't know why the did both a breather and a catch can, since that catch can is vented and not run back to the air box at all.. kind of weird.. you could run something like this and rid yourself of both: 616-1432200 Kitaco Oil Catch Can - '13-'20 Honda GROM / GROM SF - IN STOCK

Usually you only see these mods on big bore or high compression engines. With the standalone ecu, cam, and injector I'm not super surprised the old owner put one on.

With the aftermarket injector and cam, a powercommander might be a bitch, just saying. if it runs well I'd leave the ecu the previous owner had on there alone or try to find where he got it and see if they can re-tune that for an intake swap rather than starting from scratch with a PC.
Ok Awesome thank you for the help.
If I were to remove the box air intake and replace it with an aftermarket air intake dont I need a PC since it has a full exhaust on it?
I know with my other bikes whenever I did an air intake and a full exhaust I always needed a PC, but is it different with these smaller engines?
If I dont need it then yea I wont bother.
Thank you!
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Looks like the bike already has a finbro ecu, so no PC needed. The finbro basically is one.. kinda. Looks like the finbro is flexible enough to self learn with an intake. I'd recommend some googling around and seeing what you can learn on it, I'm not familiar with it beyond a few minutes on the interwebz.

Looks like the bike already has a finbro ecu, so no PC needed. The finbro basically is one.. kinda. Looks like the finbro is flexible enough to self learn with an intake. I'd recommend some googling around and seeing what you can learn on it, I'm not familiar with it beyond a few minutes on the interwebz.

Thank you very much, you have been extremely helpful thank you again
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I'll be honest and say I don't know why the did both a breather and a catch can, since that catch can is vented and not run back to the air box at all.
The idea is to get positive crankcase ventilation. Usually, there's only one breather tube going from the crankcase to the airbox which creates a slight vacuum. That makes it less likely to leak oil if the crankcase isn't sealed perfectly but the nasty, corrosive blowby gases don't get fully evacuated since they only get replaced by more of the same gases. The second breather vented to the atmosphere takes in fresh air that displaces those gases so the oil stays cleaner. A PVC valve isn't needed because the vacuum source is upstream from the TB and not at the intake manifold.
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