[Biturbos4] First of my own wrenching of my '01 S4

[Quincy Chiang]

I had a K&N panel filter in my '90 CoupeQ, initially I though the intake sound got louder (pretty cool), but no performance gain I could really feel.  When it's time to clean and re-oil it, I found out that improper oiling (ie. too much) can kill the MAF, plus I read a few independent studies that K&N doesn't flow much more than a stock paper filter, and its filtering performance gets much worse than stock, so I went back to a oem.  Lo and behold, I felt zero performance difference after the switch, and it even sounded the same as before!  Base on that experience, I'd say keep using stock filters.  In addition, if you let more air through, you have to let more dirt in at the same time, and more dirt = bad for engine.

Quincy
'01.5 S4
'90 CoupeQ

----- Original Message -----
From: Single Malt <s_malt at yahoo.com>
Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2004 8:37 pm
Subject: Re: [Biturbos4] First of my own wrenching of my '01 S4

> Well, the $42 is already sunk ... the question now becomes: Should 
> I toss it
> and save the MAF?  Is the risk that high?  Using the reasoning 
> that there is no
> gain and two risks (dirt and oil), it would seem the $42 bucks was 
> a cheap
> mistake that is easily corrected.
> 
> Now, with all that said ... in my neck of the woods $42 might buy 
> a nice dinner
> ... but a *very* nice dinner is going to top $100 ... make it $150 
> if you want
> wine ... $200 if the wine is *very* nice too! <grin>
> 
> -steve
> 
> --- Ti Kan <ti at amb.org> wrote:
> > If I were you, I'd keep the $42 for a very nice dinner rather than
> > waste it on something that might buy me nothing except possible 
> trouble> down the line.
> 
> 
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