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One dirty filter - mpg9999 - 04-07-2005
Wonder if this is why my gas mileage has been sucking
![[Image: editfilter.jpg]](http://www.photodump.com/direct/mpg9999/editfilter.jpg)
To anyone that has a CAI with the filter in a direct path to outside airflow (like my AEM CAI), I'd suggest cleaning it often, maybe as often as every 5,000 miles.
-Mike
- ScottyB - 04-07-2005
whoa. where do you drive your car, in a coal mine?
- Andy - 04-07-2005
I've been running my CAI for about 12,000 and it looks more like your new one than your old run. Where have you been running that thing?
- Mike - 04-07-2005
i've had mine for probably 6k miles, it was used and hasn't really gotten any dirtier since. how do you clean them anyway?
- Sijray21 - 04-07-2005
damn, that filter is filthy. I usually clean mine every 10k miles but it's never looked like that before. Enter any rally-x's ? :wink:
you clean the K&N filters using the recharge kit....thought you would know that mike
- Mike - 04-07-2005
i ain't got no k&n dawg!
- JackoliciousLegs - 04-07-2005
he's got the ebay knock off... lol... k&n gives you this oil stuff that you spray on it and it cleans it...
- .RJ - 04-07-2005
paper > k&N
- Jeff - 04-07-2005
That filter is slutty. lol. RJ I love my K&N on the sebring...it be pimpish. Arn't they supposed to be removed and converted to a short ram on rainy days? doesn't is split in the center with a place for the filter to go?
- Sijray21 - 04-07-2005
TurboOmni08 Wrote:That filter is slutty. lol. RJ I love my K&N on the sebring...it be pimpish. Arn't they supposed to be removed and converted to a short ram on rainy days? doesn't is split in the center with a place for the filter to go?
you're thinking of the "iceman" intake
they have that split option. really the only way that filter could get that dirty is if you didn't have a mud guard in the fender well, otherwise i really don't know how it would get that dirty. Getting the aem bypass valve really doesn't do anything to help with water as attested to many people on forums who have hydro-locked their cars. and notice that they haven't run a dyno comparison to show the power loss with adding in the bypass valve :wink:
Re: One dirty filter - lillitnn92 - 04-07-2005
mpg9999 Wrote:To anyone that has a CAI with the filter in a direct path to outside airflow (like my AEM CAI), I'd suggest cleaning it often, maybe as often as every 5,000 miles.
-Mike
mine is getting there. i usually break out the cleaner, but i've been lazy.
- Feersty - 04-07-2005
I have a K&N filtercharger, works pretty well, I probably get a new one, sooner or later.