the air filters that come in just that wire mesh/screen material is garbage right...it has no paper,cotton,etc filtering elements.....just a screen mesh material shaped like cone...my friend here at work has that type of filter on his intake (bought the car with it) and i told him he should switch it to a k&n filter over that thing on there now....when the car is idling u can here a freaky sound from the intake sucking i thought the k&n would reduce or eliminate that sound due to an actual filtering element being present...am i right or wrong...please corrrect me...thanks

 

The generic ones usually arent pre-oiled I believe, and they probably dont flow as well.

 

to answer my question though

 

It's hard to understand exactly what you're asking... If he just has some kind of screen mesh, then that's not doing much filtering. A K&N or an OEM filter will be much better. OEM probably muffles more noise than K&N.

 

blitz makes the screen mesh type filter.. i dont think they are crap at all..

 

i put a new,better filter on for him...problem solved...thanks