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Paper or K&N filter ?
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I prefer the k&n but at $55 ship is a lot when the paper is $12 ship.
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I've never seen anything that showed K&N was better than oem at doing the job it's supposed to do --- filter the air.
IMHO, K&N is really just a marketing company. Fram is another one.
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650ed wrote: The K&N filter does not filter particles as fine as does the stock filter. Ed
In my case, would the Emgo paper air filter be considered a stock filter, or are you specifically suggesting a Genuine Kawasaki 11013-1037 filter?
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Plus all the labor and chemicals... yuck. Once the K&N is fully oiled and sticky, it doesn't really flow any more air, so what's the point of doing all the extra work and laying out all the extra cash?650ed wrote: The K&N filter does not filter particles as fine as does the stock filter. Ed
Daveo:
I've used Emgo replacements for stock filters for many years. It didn't seem to be any different from the factory filter in regards to filtering or flowing, but I didn't do any serious testing... just looked at the dirt accumulation and felt how it ran, which were the same, as far I could tell.
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It's not like I'll drive 20k miles a year.
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"They allow larger particles of dust into the engine".....These particles are so small that if by some miracle the particles got past the OIL-SOAKED air filter, the explosion of the engine's combustion chamber would turn it into a nuisance similar of a mosquito being sucked into a jumbo jet's engine. And by this logic, by not soaking up as many particles this allows the filter to last even longer. The only people who should be concerned with this is if you must drive through a sandstorm to get to work daily....and who doesn't want to do that?
"It's expensive"....I don't know about you, but I'd rather ride than work on a bike. These filters last longer than oem before you have to do anything with them, and then it costs you $10 to $20 for a recharge kit that pretty much will last you longer than any vehicle's life. So $15 every 1 or 2 years....or $75 for forever? Kinda evens itself out pretty easily. These oil filters last longer because they allow more air to pass through with less vacuum, and therefore it takes more time for them to get dirty enough to need servicing.
I agree on that hi-flow filters alone do not give you more horsepower. They give you more horsepower only when then engine has been modified to the point that it needs more air from the intake than the stock setup can provide.
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SmokyOwl wrote: ........ These oil filters last longer because they allow more air to pass through with less vacuum, and therefore it takes more time for them to get dirty enough to need servicing.
Actually, that is not what the study found. It found "The AC Delco filter test ran for 60 minutes before exceeding the restriction limit while the AMSOIL and K&N tests each ran for 20 and 24 minutes respectively before reaching max restriction."
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