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I can't speak for this as I installed a Volant intake, but has anyone looked into this filter:NVSteve wrote:So, I was just ordering a few extra bits and pieces from Courtesy Parts, and one thing led to another. I ended up buying a drop-in K&N filter from Amazon. I've heard people rave about K&N in the past, but the only reason I picked one up is because I could clean & reuse it. I could care less about increased HP or whatever, and actually don't even buy into any performance gains with a simple drop-in replacement filter.
I just received it in the mail today, and I unfortunately decided to search for K&N product tests and reviews. The info I found supports the "hi flow" claims from K&N, but it seems the filter lets in more crap than the OEM paper filter. Since I live in the desert, this is a huge concern. Even driving off the highway in the mountains here, there is dust everywhere. I'm now wondering if I should just return the filter and stock up on a few OEM filters instead. Anyone have any thoughts on the matter? And no, cold air intakes (or hot air intakes) are of no interest to me as I have seen horrible problems with them in the past.
I just got back from another long weekend in the dirt (story & pics shortly in the adventures thread). I think I might just pull out the stock filter this weekend and see how bad it is at this point. One option I'm toying with is to just keep the K&N in the vehicle when driving to & from work, then popping in the paper filter when I leave on roadtrips. If it will cost me $8 to return the filter, I'll most likely just keep it since it only cost me $30. I just hope I don't find out something about K&N the hard way.NAKA24DE wrote:Hmm, I have run K&N on all my cars ... dang my Altima has had the K&N since 100K miles , now has 195K miles and after more than 200 passes down the 1/4, 4 road race track days and very hard street use , its still going strong ... No oil usage , no issues with more dirt , I have NEVER had to clean my MAF or throttle body ..... still runs better than new .... I would have to see the real tests to see if its true .... since I have never seen any evidence of K&N causing more dirt to get into the engine ...