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

[Quincy Chiang]

Really?  Interesting, didn't know that, now I do.  Seat-of-the-pants feel can be deceiving, throttle response is one of those thing.  A K&N _may_ improve it somewhat, but like you said I seriously doubt it can add any hp.  In which case, I'd feel better keeping the intake stock.

Quincy

----- Original Message -----
From: j y <jimnetpa at yahoo.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:54 pm
Subject: Re: [Biturbos4] First of my own wrenching of my '01 S4

> Well..Porsche turbos come from the FACTORY with the K&N set-up. I 
> guess they aren't worried about TOO much dirt with more air.
> 
> 
> Quincy Chiang <b5quattro at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 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 
> 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! 
> > 
> > -steve
> > 
> > --- Ti Kan 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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