Performance Air Filters.

[Dog]

What is the best brand to get?

 

K & N

Pipercross

[Ponty]

Most are a waste of time. A decent panel replacing the OEM one will be your best bet. K&N are sound enough.

 

Car companies spend millions developing a car's breathing characteristics so just plonking on a cone filter will do bugger all for the car without an exhaust and full ECU remap to match.

[Dog]

Most are a waste of time. A decent panel replacing the OEM one will be your best bet. K&N are sound enough.

 

Car companies spend millions developing a car's breathing characteristics so just plonking on a cone filter will do bugger all for the car without an exhaust and full ECU remap to match.

 

 

Yeah, that is what I meant. I don't want a induction kit, just a air filter replacement square thingy. Supposed to give 30% more air, so should improve performance & fuel.

[Ponty]

Get yourself on an owners' forum and search for air filter threads. It's really your best bet.

[swannymere]

Won't you have to have the car's engine management played with to make the most of the extra air or do cars electrics adjust themselves?

[Dog]

Get yourself on an owners' forum and search for air filter threads. It's really your best bet.

 

Bollix, they don't do a replacement air filter for my car. They must do surely?

 

Ponty?:smt102

[Ponty]

Which car is it?

[Dog]

The Lambo

[Ponty]

PM sent.

[Dog]

BMC Air Filters, are they any good?

 

It looks like BMC are the only people that do one for my model. Thanks for that Ponty what exactly will it do to my car when fitted.

Edited 6 June, 2010 by Dog

[Ponty]

Yeah, BMC are very respected in motorsports. I could be wrong but I'm sure Ferrari fit them in some models for the track.

 

Truth is, it probably won't do a whole lot if you just bang it in except possibly clean the air better than the standard part unless your car has an intelligent ECU. If it has, ie. it can adapt to changes of fuel from 95 to 99 RON (without external mapping) then it will benefit.

[Dog]

Well my car runs on both 95RON & 99RON if that answers your question. So it has an intelligent ECU, how will it benefit the performance.

[Ponty]

It should make it a little more eager but it's all relative. Let's say it frees up a handful of horses, you're not going to notice much change when you're pushing well over 200 already. It's the sort of thing that I'd only change when the OEM one needs changing anyway, say after its first 3 years.

 

If you're hunting performance then a remap, alongside a new exhaust and filter, will probably free up about 50-80 horsepower for a grand or so. Anything more than that and you're looking at megabucks for new engine internals and a bigger turbo.

[Dog]

BMC Air Filter fitted and it goes like a bullet, I don't know if it's my head but it does seem to go faster