is it time to clean my cai filter???

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Jun 16, 2004 | 05:37 PM

#41

blader

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From: Forked River NJ

the uni filter and the K&N are two different things. I've heard the UNI filter literally has to be cleaned like every 3000 miles .. which I think is ridiculous. I took mine out after 3000 miles of using it to swap for the K&N and it was really dirty. I've heard K&Ns can go for 10s of thousands of miles without being cleaned, because the way they are made actually uses the dirt as a filtering element once it is trapped... or something like that.

Jun 16, 2004 | 05:39 PM

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mrsteve

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Originally Posted by agui

icebox ownz joo, 5 easy to acess bolts and she is out and ready to be cleaned.

I swaped my CT filter with a K&N cone filter about 5k ago but I haven't cleaned it yet. I plan on doing so soon though.

Jun 17, 2004 | 12:12 PM

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Pure Adrenaline

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Originally Posted by SiGGy

Why?

Because of it's design the longer you leave it on (dirty) the better it filters. Really no problem with it until it becomes restrictive. Which would take a long time.

A clean K&N filter does not filter smaller dust particles that a dirty one would.

I agree. There's no need to clean it too often, and it would let the smaller dirt particles get through.

I just reached about 5,000 miles since installing the CAI, and cleaned it earlier this week. It wasn't that dirty.

Jun 17, 2004 | 02:28 PM

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YuppieCL

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i haven't cleaned my cai since i bought it off of xepher and got it installed... what was that like almost 3 years ago?!

Jun 17, 2004 | 02:40 PM

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CLpower

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From: Huntington Beach, CA -> Ashburn, VA -> Raleigh, NC -> Walnut Creek, CA

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Originally Posted by Renegade

WTF you dont have your splash guard anymore, damn thats taking a risk about hydrolocking im guessing.

Shawn,
I dont have a jack, I have to go under the car and try to unbolt it from there. Its pretty damn annoying

drove around for 2 years w/o a splashguard, had no problems