i'm about to buy this filter and just wondering if this is the real filter or fake. the engraving looks fake to me. is this the real deal?

*remember i'm just worried about the filter...not the piping.

 

as long as its a cotton & wire element, it is essentially a K&N style, even if its made by some generic company. If the filter is made of paper, its not a "K&N"

 

looks real to me....k&n makes los of versions of cone filters.....try to find that serialnumber on the K&N site or something

 

How much are they selling it for?

 

They are using the K&N logo... and have a K&N box in the pic. I doubt they would go to this extent without giving you a real one. Typically you'll see a 'style' thrown in there somewhere...
Looks good to me

 

If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck....I have had some bad experience w/ ebay before. But some stuff is legit. I'd go for it. At least you'll have a new filter, K&n or not.

 

look at my sig... careful with ebay filters.

any does look fake to me as well

 

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any does look fake to me as well</TD></TR></TABLE>

blame it on the filter when you're the dumbass who doesnt realize that turbos get hot, and heat softens/melts rubber. GOOD GAME GENIUS!

 

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blame it on the filter when you're the dumbass who doesnt realize that turbos get hot, and heat softens/melts rubber. GOOD GAME GENIUS!</TD></TR></TABLE>

lol it wasn't deadlock's thread

 

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look at his sig. he is crying that he bought an ebay "K&N type filter" and put it on his compressor housing and it melted and ruined his turbo... blames it on the filter.

 

I'd look into the seller's feedback, find others who bought that kit, and shoot them a message. If they say its a real cotton material, it should be at least 95% the performance of real K&N. There are tons of paper ones that are colored, don't get taken by the scammers.

Since I've been dicking with & around my k&n the last few days, that is def. a fake looking stamp on the rubber. Mine is moulded (not stamped) in the shap of the K&N logo you see in the bottom left corner of that picture.


BTW, if you dig through summitracing.com, you can find all the K&N filters for good prices. Mine was around $35, one of the bigger cylinder-shaped models.

 

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look at his sig. he is crying that he bought an ebay "K&N type filter" and put it on his compressor housing and it melted and ruined his turbo... blames it on the filter.</TD></TR></TABLE>

dude.. read it again.. it's not deadlock's thread... deadlock is not the one who's crying.. just because it's in his sig... doesn't mean he STARTED the thread