I bought a shorty off ebay about 16mo ago

The filter only had a fine screen on the end that you could see through.

I recently figured that it may be allowing alot of dust and such into the engine(ewww ) so I covered it with duck tape to force the air through the filter paper.



am I beeing paranoid(the metal screen is pretty fine) , should I just put a little light oil on the screen(nit on paper of course)?

 

holy crap dude, just spend the 20 bucks on a new filter

 

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where have you found them?

the auto parts stores seem oblivious, they just wanna sell me an entire K&N system

 

they can order k&n fiters, most are just to stupid to understand what your askingthe ebay filter are REALY shitty

 

they sell those imitation k&n filters at autozone for 20 bucks and they are much better than what you have right now

 

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Thank you.


I wonder if this will lower my MPG........more restriction
But better piston life

good trade

 

the flow usally suck and so does fitleration wiht the ebay ones, any thing you use will be be an upgrade

 

I've got 6 or 7 used K&Ns...always keep a backup. They are better than the copies (beleive it or not)

 

just use your stock airbox you dumbies, dyno tests have proven there are no noticeable gains for using a gay *** intake and k&n or copies. Why do it? The noise? The whole "I got an intake y0!" thing? ANY aftermarket filter will let crap into your engine that the stocker will not. if your that picky about thinking your intake helps then just get the k&n drop in. I forgot the link to the tests, but they were done by an independent lab...google air filter tests and youll find it.
God Im old....we were trying to hash this same problem out when I got my license, the year when most of you were probably born.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by SIred91 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">just use your stock airbox you dumbies, dyno tests have proven there are no noticeable gains for using a gay *** intake and k&n or copies. Why do it? The noise? The whole "I got an intake y0!" thing? ANY aftermarket filter will let crap into your engine that the stocker will not. if your that picky about thinking your intake helps then just get the k&n drop in. I forgot the link to the tests, but they were done by an independent lab...google air filter tests and youll find it.</TD></TR></TABLE>


I could not find any independent tests on a CRX or other small car.
I did find one on a big diesel, but it was not in different intakes, just the filter
The K&N produced 316WHP on a dyno, and the plain paper filter produced 318WHP.
Imagine That!!!!!

I would like to see an independent comparison of stock and aftermarket intakes with that being the only difference(same warmup time from cold and all else)

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God Im old....we were trying to hash this same problem out when I got my license, the year when most of you were probably born.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Most but not all........ some of us have been around for several decades

 

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I could not find any independent tests on a CRX or other small car.
I did find one on a big diesel, but it was not in different intakes, just the filter
The K&N produced 316WHP on a dyno, and the plain paper filter produced 318WHP.
Imagine That!!!!!

I would like to see an independent comparison of stock and aftermarket intakes with that being the only difference(same warmup time from cold and all else)

Most but not all........ some of us have been around for several decades </TD></TR></TABLE>

 

keep using it,