foaming with ideals
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foaming with ideals
okay what do you perfer foam filters or standered mesh like K&N and just for fun lets throw in paper filters too.
personaly i always saw foam filters like one big sponge. and would hate to have a open element one in the rain or take it river running. Some how i just stick to K&N i feel like they have been around for so long that they should by now have all the kinks worked out even though its takes a lil time to clean and grease them i think its well worth it for the finnish product.
personaly i always saw foam filters like one big sponge. and would hate to have a open element one in the rain or take it river running. Some how i just stick to K&N i feel like they have been around for so long that they should by now have all the kinks worked out even though its takes a lil time to clean and grease them i think its well worth it for the finnish product.
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After ~20 miles a k and n filter is plugged up to where it flows as much as a quality paper filter. I fail to see the point of them. The only foam filters I have experience with were on my B&S powered lawn mowers. When correctly oiled will last several seasons without needing cleaned.
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yeah i was told that foam filters should never be oiled.... though to speak for K&N andi live right next to a qurry. every day durring the summer i would drive buy and through a fog of rock dust. it was only after a month where i would see a a hp or gpm loss. though my fathers diesel truck would seem to go 4 to 5 mouths before ever needing cleanning and then he only cleaned because it looked dirty. till this day i was still surprised how much of that fine dust it collected and still ran like new. I always fear paper would suck the dust right through into my engine
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hahah well it depends what i use it for. But when i started using it for online games i think i ment it as Devil sword. but god knows now i change it off and on. i never ment it to be portrayed as devil worship but some people just are crazy like that lol
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Yea if it flows good..its flowing dirt into your motor...
I live on a rock road..we are in a drougt...11inches under on rain for the year...its pretty dusty. I clean my filters once a weeek atleast.
During the spring, late fall, We have floods pretty bad..and theres several low water bridges..around here...infact in a bad flood i cant even get out of the valley for 3-5 days.So after a flood driving through water i usually change my filter.
I run stock
I live on a rock road..we are in a drougt...11inches under on rain for the year...its pretty dusty. I clean my filters once a weeek atleast.
During the spring, late fall, We have floods pretty bad..and theres several low water bridges..around here...infact in a bad flood i cant even get out of the valley for 3-5 days.So after a flood driving through water i usually change my filter.
I run stock
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> Foam filters like to burn
I agree with that. I had a fancy foam filter, one of those triangle deals, 1000 CFM, one good backfire and the truck was lit. Luckily I carry a fire ext. in my truck.
Now I go with plain paper filters and if dust is excessive, I put a foam wrap around it and wash the foam.
I agree with that. I had a fancy foam filter, one of those triangle deals, 1000 CFM, one good backfire and the truck was lit. Luckily I carry a fire ext. in my truck.
Now I go with plain paper filters and if dust is excessive, I put a foam wrap around it and wash the foam.
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Originally Posted by 77300i6
Tell me how an air filter, any one, can have the best flow and filtering capacity.
It can't. Save your money and stay with the paper elements.
It can't. Save your money and stay with the paper elements.
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I had one of the triangular foam jobs too, 1000 cfm rating and all, and lit up two little circles above the primaries. Didn't know it at the time, but a backfire had started it burning. When I was cleaning it I thought "what a good job it's doing - look at all the crap it's filtering out." Then I looked closer and it was like charcoal, and when I was through cleaning the filter there were two little dents on the underside of the foam filter.
That being said, it's not nearly as likely with fuel injected rigs for backfires to occur, right? Plus, my foam filter was about an inch above the carb fuel bowls, while a contemporary foam-style filter probably has a foot or so of tubing before it even gets to the MAF.
That being said, it's not nearly as likely with fuel injected rigs for backfires to occur, right? Plus, my foam filter was about an inch above the carb fuel bowls, while a contemporary foam-style filter probably has a foot or so of tubing before it even gets to the MAF.