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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:39:47 -0700
From: Johannes H Andersen <johannes.andersennopsamel.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Sport Air Filter


Dave Hinz wrote: > > Johannes H Andersen (johannes.andersennopsamel.ac.uk) wrote: > > : Thanks. I have trawled usenet for 'K&N Air Fillter'. It is mostly > : positive, so I have become more interested. But some people had concern > : that oil might get onto the wire of the air mass meter if the K&N filter > : is cleaned incorrectly. If this happens then the engine management goes > : haywire. > > I don't think it would - can you point to any cases where this has actually > happened as opposed to just people speculating that maybe it might somehow > maybe happen to happen hypothetically? > > Another reason I wouldn't worry about it, is that when you turn on the car, > the wire in the mass sensor is heated up to (very bignum) temperature, > specifically to burn any crap off of it, so I don't think it'd be a problem > even if the contamination (which I doubt happens) happened. > You maybe right. The air mass meter also gets oil mist from the turbo bearings. What I did was looking in http://groups.google.com and searching with the key: 'K&N Air filter'. Lots if interesting stuff came up. Anyone knows who sells these filters in the UK? Johannes

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