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I was in O'reily's the other day buying an air filter and when I told him I had a 460 he said that I should get an "open" filter. Right now I have the stock oil bath air cleaner. Is it better to have the big, open filter than the stock one I've got now? What is the difference between the two?
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An open element has it's ups and downs. I'll tell you what I've found with mine:
Ups -
It gives the engine a 'performance' look.
Allows it to easily pull more air in.
Downs -
Can hear engine 'sucking' air into carb.
It pulls air heated by the engine (cool air is better)
It gets dirty quicker and if you live where the snow blows into engine compartment - then the filter ends up wet.
I don't think the ups out weigh the downs for my stock daily driver - so I'm making a dual snorkel stock looking air cleaner (do a search it's been discussed in detail recently). So the engine can pull in a large quantity of cool clean air and my filter will stay cleaner and dryer longer.
If you do decide to try it - keep the old filter housing incase you decide to go back to the enclosed one...
Marty
By the way: An oil bath air filter has no paper filter element, it uses motor oil in the bottom as the filter. Then when dirty, the motor oil gets changed. Yours is an enclosed paper filter...
Ups -
It gives the engine a 'performance' look.
Allows it to easily pull more air in.
Downs -
Can hear engine 'sucking' air into carb.
It pulls air heated by the engine (cool air is better)
It gets dirty quicker and if you live where the snow blows into engine compartment - then the filter ends up wet.
I don't think the ups out weigh the downs for my stock daily driver - so I'm making a dual snorkel stock looking air cleaner (do a search it's been discussed in detail recently). So the engine can pull in a large quantity of cool clean air and my filter will stay cleaner and dryer longer.
If you do decide to try it - keep the old filter housing incase you decide to go back to the enclosed one...
Marty
By the way: An oil bath air filter has no paper filter element, it uses motor oil in the bottom as the filter. Then when dirty, the motor oil gets changed. Yours is an enclosed paper filter...
Last edited by 73Custom; May 17, 2003 at 09:02 AM.
