I found this CAI on EBay for a 00-04 Focus and was wondering if it'll work on the Contour Zetecs, I'm thinking yes, but I'm just making sure.
Intake. Thanks in advance guys.
Stuff isn't in the same spot. Not gonna work as cold air. Maybe part of it can be positioned as a normal intake. Just follow sleeperz's intake thing.
If you do get it dont use that cheap filter. I would go out and get a good filter if I were you.
What's wrong with using cheap filters?
K&N 3" filter. The only way to go.
3" Inlet, 5" Long
3" Inlet, 6" long
3" Inlet, 6.5" Long
3" Inlet, 8" long
3" Inlet, 9" long
I think I have a 8" long round filter currently on
my custom CAI.
(BTW, S&B makes good filters good as well.
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HTH,
BP
Wow wait a second, I'm not looking to do that much work just a basic intake set up, I'm kinda on a budget here.
Oh oh oh, PM me I want to know your ways of the intake.
care to share with the class???
Cheap filters=sand and dirt in your engine
$20 extra for a good filter is a whole lot cheaper than having your block honed and putting on new piston rings.
It's good when things can be done cheaply, but you need to know where not to go too cheap or it can cost you big in the long run.
HTH,
BP
What I mean by "cheap filters" is the ones you can buy in an autoparts store, usually made of paper.I'm not talking aboat foamies or clothies. I like to think that a good Purolator paper-style filter, as in one that would come as an OEM part(maybe not on a Contique, but a production vehicle nonetheless)filters out contaminants to the auto manufacturer in questions' standards, which tend to be set high enough to prevent damage to their engines. To put it bluntly, I trust Purolator over K&N as far as sediment filtration goes. A paper filter doesn't flow as much air as an oil/cloth type, but it catches more crap. Yeah, you have to pay for a new one every time you replace it, it can't get wet, and it doesn't flow quite as well, but I like the idea of my engine being protected to a higher degree over a 1 hp handicap to the K&N. It really comes down to the question: What do you value more, your car as an investment or your car as a performance machine(which my '97 Zetec happens to not be in the classical sense...)?
A short ram intake with a paper filter still offers a noticeable increase in performance over stock, just not quite to the degree as the K&N.
I was just askin for the supportin evidence buddddyyyy. Didn't say nuffin bout provin nobody rong.
The reason no automaker uses a reuseable, especially oiled, filter has nothing to do with their efficiency. Think on that, and don't get back to me.
BTW, yeah so K & N lets some dirt through. I guess there is some give and take when it comes to getting power. A better filtering filter is more restrictive (baaaaad). As long as it keeps the butterflies and leaves out, I'm alright with it. The rest can burn up in that there combustion chamber.
I don't want to get in a fight over something so stupid as this. Sorry if I sounded a little smug there.
I know darn well why they don't use them.
As for filtration, I just prefer paper. Simple as that. Other people can use what they want and do what they want to their engines. It isn't up to me, nor should it be. I only offer what I know, and whether anyone chooses to accept it is entirely up to them.
Like my sig says
"Do what you like, because you have to drive it."
WHOA! Mr. way to much cologne wearer!>>
You've got 4 gallons of cologne and a plan...
WHOA! NOw21!
I got a case in point.....My Zetec ever since 30k has had a "reusable" open air filter. I know I didn't clean and oil them as often as I should have. I beat the car EVRY single day (sucking in a lot more air than normal). At 140K when I got rid of the car it ran just as good as the day I bought the car. Point being that IF the open air filter sucked in more crap....my Zetec would have been toast....but it wasn't. Besides the particles that would have passed would have been burnt to nothing by the time it got to anywhere important.
I think my story is proof enough that there is no negative effects to running a K&N or something similar.
How do you like them apples?
That's what Im saying. That's a hot fire in there and them dust particles gonna burrrrnnn.
Good enough for me...
I'll stick with paper tho...
