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Re: K&N Panel Air Filter - better performance?

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Re: K&N Panel Air Filter - better performance?

Dave Plowman (News)25 Sep 2007 08:01
> Even more interesting:

> Ask K&N fans to list for you the car manufacturers who fit K&N filters
> to their cars from the factory. That's anyone from KIA (who does not
> seek all out performance) to Ferrari (who does).

> The list will be short to non-existent...and that speaks volumes.

Indeed. If such a cheap simple swop was capable of giving the claimed
improvements makers would fit them as standard.

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nopcbs25 Sep 2007 02:20
Even more interesting:

Ask K&N fans to list for you the car manufacturers who fit K&N filters to
their cars from the factory. That's anyone from KIA (who does not seek all
out performance) to Ferrari (who does).

The list will be short to non-existent...and that speaks volumes.

GRL

"I know top management has always been behind me. I've felt them there many
times." Officer Herbert "Spermwhale" Whalen in Joseph Wambaugh's The
Choirboys

>>> "DCA" <dca860MAPS@yahooMAPS.co.uk> wrote in message
>>
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> independent review but better than myth I guess
> D

DCA24 Sep 2007 23:09
>  
>> "DCA" <dca860MAPS@yahooMAPS.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
>  
Interesting - thanks for the pointer. Would have preferred to see an
independent review but better than myth I guess
D

Hurst24 Sep 2007 19:46
> "DCA" <dca860MAPS@yahooMAPS.co.uk> wrote in message

>> You forgot the added functionality of allowing crap to reach the MAF
>> causing it to fail and lose 50% engine power!

More on *that*  "myth" here....

http://www.knfilters.com/MAF/massair.htm

Hurst24 Sep 2007 19:09
>>> Just wondering if replacing the stock filter with the above would
>>> noticeably improve performance or sound.
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> You forgot the added functionality of allowing crap to reach the MAF
> causing it to fail and lose 50% engine power!

Wouldn't that be the case with any performancy-type filter?  After all
lesser restriction to airflow would enhance performance, but compromise on
the filtering ability?

DCA24 Sep 2007 07:30
>  
>> Just wondering if replacing the stock filter with the above would noticeably
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>
>  
You forgot the added functionality of allowing crap to reach the MAF
causing it to fail and lose 50% engine power!

hsg@h-gee.co.uk23 Sep 2007 21:13
>Just wondering if replacing the stock filter with the above would noticeably
>improve performance or sound.
>
>Any comments?

Depends on model but my E38 V8 4.4 had the original filter style but with K&N
replacement.  The only difference is that you don't swap it out just clean it
every 10K or so. No NOTICABLE performance increase.

However if you like induction NOISE then a complete intake kit would give you a
restless drive and make your car sound like it's being driven by a mindless
moron - you might get 2 BHP from it too.

Sir Hugh of Bognor

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Hurst23 Sep 2007 18:42
Just wondering if replacing the stock filter with the above would noticeably
improve performance or sound.

Any comments?

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