Al-
I read the article too, & the point made was that once the air cleaners were
dirty, the whole situation of air flow changed to the worse, & the paper
cleaners got dirty & restrictive fairly quickly, while the K & N still would
flow plenty of air. My own experience is that I have seen no gas mileage
changes with a K & N over 3 years old, that was never cleaned- almost 75,000
miles- & no change after cleaning. The paper filter that came with the drop
base air cleaner showed a decrease in gas mileage after the first 11-12,ooo
miles of use.
Jim Stuart
Reply to <jimbb88@usa.com>
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mgb-v8@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgb-v8@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of Allen Wulf
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 12:41 AM
To: Larry Hoy; MG V8 List
Subject: Re: Air filter
Larry, There is an interesting article in the April 2002 issue of Car Craft
testing various sizes of air cleaners a 520hp Chrysler 448ci engine. With
no air cleaner it dynoed at 519hp; a 7 inch odx 3 inch tall 520, etc. They
tested with everything from no air filter to 14"od X 6" tall. It produced
the most hp(522hp) with a 14" od X 2.25 " tall, 7/8 drop base.
On my own 215 V8 I didn't notice any increase in performance when I switched
from the 2.25" 14" paper filter to the 2.5" 14" K&N. I could have bought a
lot of paper filters for what I paid for the K&N!
Al
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