Originally posted by Baby SHO: Lose the faux K&N and put the biggest one you can find on it. That filter that comes with the intake kit is pretty small.
Actually it depends on what they send you, I got mine about six months after another local and my filter was much larger. However I agree that you could still go larger, I have been fabbing a new heat shield and use a K&N 3530 and also the K&N 4760. They both work fine.
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Originally posted by Baby SHO: Lose the faux K&N and put the biggest one you can find on it. That filter that comes with the intake kit is pretty small.
Do you really think any open element K&N is going to be a restriction at this point? I know bigger is usually better but on a stock motor I have a hard time seeing it being a restriction.
I feel a bigger filter will give room to grow in the future. Especially when more mods are added. Also, i am kind of leery when it comes to off brand air filters. Maybe i am just being paranoid.
Originally posted by Baby SHO: I feel a bigger filter will give room to grow in the future. Especially when more mods are added. Also, i am kind of leery when it comes to off brand air filters. Maybe i am just being paranoid.
I've got three filters: a big K&N conical, an "off brand" conical, and a Ractive heat-shield filter (which looks tiny and restrictive; see pics in sig). I installed the Ractive to compare against the bigger filters and haven't noticed anything different other than more consistent runs. I've actually kept it on for about three months now, I may switch back in fall or winter.
As for the K&N vs. no-name, They may as well have come off the same machine. Not enough difference anywhere to warrant purchasing one over the other.
