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Re: Air Filters
June 17, 2009 11:43PM

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Grant...just pick off the dried grasshoppers, dip in some chocolate and eat....JDM delicacy.

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Re: Air Filters
June 18, 2009 08:40PM

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Beware the K&N air filter in some instances. A friend put a new one on his Power Stroke and got about 2 blocks before it died. Wouldn't restart. I just happened upon the scene and after a few minutes of digging around I found the instructions for the filter in his turbo blades. Seems the instructions had been shoved inside the AF , which was a cone shaped CAI setup. He never looked inside the filter just put it on. Luckily it didn't seem to hurt the turbo.

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Re: Air Filters
June 19, 2009 10:28AM

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You by default were checking for a restrictor weren't you... smiling smiley

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Re: Air Filters
June 19, 2009 10:36AM

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NoCoast Wrote:
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> You by default were checking for a restrictor
> weren't you...
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This was about 1990, must be destiny.

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Re: Air Filters
June 20, 2009 04:38PM

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I'm using a $20 spectre cone filter. It's good enough for now but I Would really like to go back to a paper filter since they should filter better.

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Re: Air Filters
June 22, 2009 09:30AM

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I think it was Matt Johnston's Civic that last year had a inexpensive KN rip off cone filter fail leading to a DNF. (May be wrong though) It was shortly before his chinese Garrett rip off ebay turbo failed if I recall correctly.

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Re: Air Filters
June 22, 2009 12:37PM

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didn't the filter's cheap ass metal cap get sucked into the turbo killing both?

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Re: Air Filters
June 22, 2009 12:39PM

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I just remember there were a good lesson there...

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Re: Air Filters
June 22, 2009 12:46PM

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yeah...I think he popped the motor after that too....it was a hell of a lesson

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Re: Air Filters
June 22, 2009 07:56PM

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Tom B Wrote:
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> didn't the filter's cheap ass metal cap get sucked
> into the turbo killing both?
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Yeah. I've seen that happen on another motor that came into the shop I worked at too. Subaru running like poo. Tore it down and found the cheap cone airfilter's cap
someplace naughty. New engine time.

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I had the exact same thing that happened to Matt Johnston happen to my GTX. The turbo sucked in the metal cap from the "inner" filter. Thank god it got logged in the intake, as if it had made it to the turbo.....that would of been really bad. I will never again run a filter that is made of multiple parts. the K&N i have now is all kind of molded together, without any part glued on.

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