Re: 10v air filter upgrades?

[Todd Phenneger <phen9461@uidaho.edu>]

I agree about the oiling.
	I think they are great, and work while wet, IF OILED.  I would do
it about every 10,000 miles.  When I do it is still oily but I do it every
Oil Change or two just to be sure.  I may go all winter without doing it
but I do it in spring and then again about 1/2 way through summer or
before a major Track Event.  Then again before winter if I have time.
	L8R
Oh, yea, good point about the airflow.  BUT, it is good to put it in an
area where it has good air to suck from.  I prefer to duct air to it from
another area and let it suck from that source. 
	L8R

	Todd Phenneger
	1984 4000s quattro / modified/ awaiting Turbo Transplant.
	1985 4000 quattro / Silver / Fixing it Up.
	1987 4000cs quattro / Saphire Metallic Blue/ Girlfriend's
	1996 A6q / Volcano / Dads Car
   *****1985 5kt / PARTING OUT!

On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 johnc@together.net wrote:

> the deal on K&N filters: KEEP IT OILED!!!  if you let it dry out, phil is
> right, it becomes a chicken wire highway for dirt to explore the inside of
> your motor.  what filters are the oil-soaked gauze fibers.  if they dry out,
> not only doesn't the dirt stick, but the gauze opens up.  one of the reasons
> they work for motorcycles is that with most bikes it's a snap to yank the
> filters and reoil.  plus most riders are gearheads and keep a hand on this
> stuff.  this is not a good way to go if you are expecting to toss the thing in
> and clean and reoil 'when you get around to it'. K&N will give you some
> propaganda about how they 'filter better as they get dirty' but A) if this is
> true, then i guess it's not doing such a great job when clean, and B) dirty
> but still oiled and dried out are two different things.
> 
> don't get me wrong, I've had 4 or 5 of these setups on bikes, and they work
> great for power and are long lived, but they do require maintenance.  then
> again, most older bikes have horrible stock airboxes, so there is alot of gain
> to be had, may not be the case with car airboxes (standard YMMV).
> 
> about intake placement, don't forget Bernoulli - As the velocity of a fluid
> increases, the pressure exerted by that fluid decreases. - so if you stick
> your inlet across the flow of air, it will suck.  so to speak.
> 
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