[Vwdiesel] 2.5

[Stephen Kraus]

Just to chime in to confirm what pmdolan said:

K&N is not a good air filter for diesel, it can harm them as the diesel pull
MUCH more air than a gas engine (I wouldn't use K&N on a gasser either...)

I've had to repair a couple TDIs and 1.6ls that ingested dirt through the
filter. K&N IS high airflow, but they do so by sacrifcing filtering quality.

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:49 AM, <pmdolan at sasktel.net> wrote:

> Not trying to be snotty,but why would you put an K&N air filter in a VW (or
> much of anything else for that matter)???
>
> I assume you believe their advertising - which is pure BS.  There is a
> mountain of experience with many vehicles that shows these things do
> precious little to remove anything smaller than a turkey from the airstream
> and don't really flow all that well.  Don't know about MkIII, but for MkIV,
> the stock airbox and filter will handle WAY more air than the engine needs
> to at least 200HP and filter properly.  Since you live in paradise, if you
> stick to the main roads it won't be that much of a problem, but if you ever
> go near any dirt of any kind, you will be removing it from the air with your
> engine, not the air cleaner.
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2011 09:17:12 -0700, Gerry Wolfe wrote:
> I have a '97 Jetta with TDI. Replaced the stock with 2.5" all the way thru,
>