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Originally Posted by FrankS
K&N filters might be OK around NYC but if you tried using one in outback Australia, where roads can have bulldust (like talcum powder) a foot deep, then your K&N would be totally clogged within a few miles, that's after letting in enough dust to do some serious damage. A good quality off-road Paper Air Filter can be blown out, and the Donaldson's on my Mack truck got dry-cleaned once a month and they lasted a couple of years or a million Klms or so. I had A cold air induction on my BA Ford Falcon GT (5.4 quad cam V8 290kw) and a K&N air filter, performance gain with this system was 18kw at the rear wheels extra. The engine was replaced at 15,000klms because of an oil consumption problem. If you could have seen the grit and grime in the plenum and the inlet trumpets, you would not use a K&N, as I don't, Regards Frank.
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Now, we are not quite like the Outback here in New York City, but we usually have our "little" incidents here like some old doctor blew up his townhouse here in Manhattan just the other day. Now we have to worry about the same old terrorist knuckleheads trying to take out the subway or one of our tunnels.
Your point of view changes a bit when your hood gets splashed with jet fuel from a crashing airliner. It did not happen to me but a fellow coworker did on his Mazda MPV.
It is getting to be just as interesting here in the Big Apple or Mumbai or London or Midrad (sic) as in the Land Down Under.
Right after 9/11, we also had a industrial explosion here , an plane crash in the Far Rockaways, and just a couple of anthrax attacks. When anthrax attacks in your neck of the woods, it is usually to prolonged contact with infected sheep.
What has that got to do with airfilters?
The last thing I want to be thinking about is my airfilter when the kangaroo hits the fan. Had my ambulance almost choke on the dustcloud down on 9/11 with the back full of patients. I was one of the first repsonders arriving when the second tower went down.
That was a stock airfilter for a Ford F-250. So it does not really matter when you are in an extreme condition, you will have to pull over and clean that airfilter.
I also see nobody took the ten seconds to check the book when to check and when to replace the airfilter. So we all know when as well?
Adam in NYC
