cleaning your filter on a stillen intake?
Your Late........!
Go to any autoparts store and get the K&N kit which contains both the
cleaner and the oil. At 15K miles you're late cleaning the filter! They should
be cleaned every 5K or no less than 10K miles. When you get into cleaning
the filter make sure you read carefully the instructions and follow them.
cleaner and the oil. At 15K miles you're late cleaning the filter! They should
be cleaned every 5K or no less than 10K miles. When you get into cleaning
the filter make sure you read carefully the instructions and follow them.
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Would you still be able to use the K&N cleaner kit for a Blitz SUS Power filter? Supposedly it's stainless steel mesh so I dunno if it's the same cleaning process as a regular K&N filter. Maybe just use the cleaner and not the oil?
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I don't know where this cleaning every 5K or even 10K comes from. According to K&N (if you believe the hype and you must if use their filter) every 30K to 50K is enough!
http://www.knfilters.com/filtercharger.htm
In fact, K&N claims filtering ability is supposed to improve as some dirt builds up. Less than 10K sounds like a lot work for no gain.
But if you think K&N passes too much dirt (and there are tests to show it does pass more than other types) cleaning it more often does nothing to help that.
Not saying NOT to use it, use your judgment, but I don't see how cleaning it so often is helping anything at all except keep it more pretty on the outside.
If you believe this is the best kind of filter, then you might check out one that is supposedly better made and is thicker to capture more dirt.
Can't think of the name, looks like a K&N but thicker. It's been discussed here before.
http://www.knfilters.com/filtercharger.htm
In fact, K&N claims filtering ability is supposed to improve as some dirt builds up. Less than 10K sounds like a lot work for no gain.
But if you think K&N passes too much dirt (and there are tests to show it does pass more than other types) cleaning it more often does nothing to help that.
Not saying NOT to use it, use your judgment, but I don't see how cleaning it so often is helping anything at all except keep it more pretty on the outside.
If you believe this is the best kind of filter, then you might check out one that is supposedly better made and is thicker to capture more dirt.
Can't think of the name, looks like a K&N but thicker. It's been discussed here before.
Originally Posted by fortified
I don't know where this cleaning every 5K or even 10K comes from. According to K&N (if you believe the hype and you must if use their filter) every 30K to 50K is enough!
http://www.knfilters.com/filtercharger.htm
In fact, K&N claims filtering ability is supposed to improve as some dirt builds up. Less than 10K sounds like a lot work for no gain.
But if you think K&N passes too much dirt (and there are tests to show it does pass more than other types) cleaning it more often does nothing to help that.
Not saying NOT to use it, use your judgment, but I don't see how cleaning it so often is helping anything at all except keep it more pretty on the outside.
If you believe this is the best kind of filter, then you might check out one that is supposedly better made and is thicker to capture more dirt.
Can't think of the name, looks like a K&N but thicker. It's been discussed here before.
http://www.knfilters.com/filtercharger.htm
In fact, K&N claims filtering ability is supposed to improve as some dirt builds up. Less than 10K sounds like a lot work for no gain.
But if you think K&N passes too much dirt (and there are tests to show it does pass more than other types) cleaning it more often does nothing to help that.
Not saying NOT to use it, use your judgment, but I don't see how cleaning it so often is helping anything at all except keep it more pretty on the outside.
If you believe this is the best kind of filter, then you might check out one that is supposedly better made and is thicker to capture more dirt.
Can't think of the name, looks like a K&N but thicker. It's been discussed here before.
No. I doubt that filter gets dirty anyway. That thing lets the world and it's mother past the filter. Worst filtering unit I've seen. You might was well not even use a filter.
Originally Posted by TakaBlackG35
Would you still be able to use the K&N cleaner kit for a Blitz SUS Power filter? Supposedly it's stainless steel mesh so I dunno if it's the same cleaning process as a regular K&N filter. Maybe just use the cleaner and not the oil?