[TR] K & N air filters

[spook01@comcast.net]

If so, I advise you to file a false advertising claim with the Feds.  That would be the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection. 
False Advertising.  Won't cost you a dime to file.
Those of you in California and other states have state agencies in addition to the Feds, and all these agencies take this sort of consumer fraud VERY seriously.  K&N is a multi million dollar business doing business world wide.  
If they're lying it is your moral duty to file on them.
So, if you really KNOW something and aren't just repeating stuff off the internet, slap iron.
Written in a friendly, nutritive, and supportive way, of course.


Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone

----- Reply message -----
From: "Randall" <TR3driver at ca.rr.com>
To: <spook01 at comcast.net>, <triumphs at autox.team.net>
Subject: [TR] K & N air filters
Date: Sat, May 19, 2012 11:24


> This "k&n won't filter anything" is a myth, unsupported by 
> any objective scientific study.

On the contrary, every objective study I've seen shows that the K&N filters
are at the back of the pack as far as both removing and holding dirt.  This
one is a bit less "scientific" but quite valid, IMO.  Notice in the very
first photo, how much dirt went through the K&N and got caught by an
ordinary paper filter.
http://goo.gl/fkMJJ

Want something a bit more quantitative?  Try this one:
http://goo.gl/eQAuW

Note, I fully agree, these tests don't show "won't filter anything".  The
K&N will stop 90% of fine (according to ISO) dust, which is a lot better
than the stock TR3 screens will likely do.  But when an ordinary Delco paper
element filter will stop over 99.9% of fine dust, that means the K&N is
letting through 100 times as much dirt.

Also, it certainly depends on your environment.  Some areas likely don't
have much fine dust.  But Los Angeles not only has a LOT of dust, it is
extremely abrasive.  If I don't wash my car for a week (which admittedly I
almost never do), and then wipe my hand across the paint, the dust will
leave permanent scratches!  I don't know, but I believe that much of the
dust is actually very fine particles of broken sand, created by dust storms
in the desert and carried here on the breeze.

-- Randall