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Originally Posted by zefaulter
I'm planning on keeping the car for as long as I like it lol... Then again, like many others I plan on boosting later on which means I won't need the filters... Good thing about k&n is that they can be easily sold back
More reps to you sh0velMan  |
I totally understand.
I also just wanna say, his viewpoints aren't
wrong for sport bikes.
If you want a sportbike motor to make its factory horsepower for longer than 20-30k miles, you have to take extra care to keep particulate matter out of the combustion chambers and sludge out of the crankcase. The tolerances are an order of magnitude tighter and the surface area is a LOT smaller. So a 0.01 MM scratch in a cylinder wall is a much greater percentage of your total cylinder wall area than it is on a 3.7L 6.
Scratches are bad on EVERY engine, but it takes a **** ton more of those scratches before you can even measure a difference in sealing performance with laboratory gear, much less a measurable difference on a dyno or in fuel economy, when compared to that of a 0.75-1.3L motorcycle engine.
Also, "so called" cold air intakes for sport-bikes (or any motorcycle with a tuned airbox) add comparatively microscopic gains or even power LOSS, sticking with the stock air box with a good paper filter is almost always the smarter route.
So he's right...and he's wrong.
