this might sound noobish but im curious to know what kinda filters everyone is running on their turbos (if u have one) i want to know if a chepo makes a diffrence between something with a name like k&n or apexi or green. ok thanks

 

Some of the cheaper filters can come apart and get sucked into the compressor inlet. K&N filters are nice, and usually pretty cheap.

 

anyone else?

 

IO'm running a cheapo temporarily right now. $18 bucks from Autozone, APC yO. Ir's a piece of **** really, foam sucks so I would avoid that at all costs. There is a company (I believe they advertise through this site) that can make you a custom one for a really good price. I'll try and dig up a link

 

K&N for me.

A few years ago I ran a UNI filter that was made for a motorcycle. But it had a foam element and the internal structure wasn't very sturdy, it made me a bit nervous so I switched it out. lol

 

Take a look at AEM's Dryflow filters. Unlike the Apex'i dry filters, they are meant to be cleaned and reused, and don't require oiling like K&N.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Forty04 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">IO'm running a cheapo temporarily right now. $18 bucks from Autozone, APC yO. Ir's a piece of **** really, foam sucks so I would avoid that at all costs.</TD></TR></TABLE>lol, im using one of those as well. been working fine for over a year at 12psi on my t3...

 

heh, no ****? I've heard they can actually restrict the turbos a bit. You ever had your car dyno'd? And if so, did you try removing it for a pull? On a higher boosted app. I remember seeing a while back that just removing that filter added something like 20+ hp. Crazy

Oh, and the company I was thinking of in my first post was Akimoto. Hate to thread jack, but has anyone tried Akimoto's filters? They claim to out flow K&N, but that could be BS

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Forty04 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">heh, no ****? I've heard they can actually restrict the turbos a bit. You ever had your car dyno'd? And if so, did you try removing it for a pull? On a higher boosted app. I remember seeing a while back that just removing that filter added something like 20+ hp. Crazy</TD></TR></TABLE>havent dyno'd yet, but ive been thinking about removing it to see if the butt-dyno feels a difference. i remember seeing those threads, one where a kit wasnt even building boost at all because of that type of filter...

 

on the dyno with my car it made a 40hp diffrence, except vise versa than it should of has. we lost power from removing the filter

 

Huh, that's definitely interesting...

 

APEXI is very nice and not too much i believe 60.00