Best air filter...

[sikkk240]

Figured anyone would find this info usefull.

http://www.mkiv.com/techarticles/filters_test/2/

[ladiesman8527]

^good info, but EXTREMELY old news.

[sikkk240]

oh. =[
hopefully some people may find it usefull.

[mRclARK1]

Yeah, kinda old. Still useful though. :bigok:

+1 for me... I use the best air filter. :rawk: :keke:

[OperationSr20]

Nice, well I am glad to see that the filter I've planned on getting, was the right one.

[DOOK]

Yeah, kinda old. Still useful though. :bigok:

+1 for me... I use the best air filter. :rawk: :keke:

that makes two of us :D ApexI FO DA WEEEEEEEEEEN

[thatdrifterguy]

yeah its old but i still find it useful. i had a hard time trying to find that again. lol

[Irukandji]

Wow I suck at the internet, I never saw that before.

I thought it was common knowledge foam filters suck

[xblack240x]

+1, haven't seen this before, at least now I know what to get if I want the best :bigok:

[Matej]

That's the reason I got my Apexi filter last year. :)

[Drift Motion]

nice info
:D
thank you very much

[rightcoastimports]

bringing this way back from the dead but I was wondering what peoples opinions on the AEM dryflow air filter were??

[youngkadafi]

^^^IMO its the best, ive ran K&N, which kills your MPG after a while. Plus my oil would dirty up quicker with the K&N

[kensreliableb18b]

bringing this way back from the dead but I was wondering what peoples opinions on the AEM dryflow air filter were??

i'm not sure. but ehhh i stick with apex. how much better can the aem one be? vouchers to spearmint rhino? hmmmmmmm okay :)

[vvtisupra]

aem dryflow works just as well

[stinky_180]

yea saw this awhile ago but...

i got an injen intake piping with maf adapter and was wondering if the apex-i will fit the ka24e maf adapter.... anybody know. sorry for being off-topic. thanks

[KwKouki]

lol I was just looking for this article 3 days ago. +rep for you

[burnsauto]

that bench test has made me smile every time i see someone rocking a $100+ hks setup.

[wow-thats-a-cool-car]

good information but what about AEM? is that just crap so they didn't test it

[SoguRacing]

haha. i prefer the apexi, just because the ex VP is a family friend but other than that i wouldn't use the K&N air filter due to the oil that needs to be applied to the filter. the oil can cause our MAFS (hotwire) to become gunked up. stay away from the K&N oil filters. gunk = lean = detionation = new engine :)

[surge s14]

thats it my HKS is going to the trash!

[rightcoastimports]

im gonna take some measurements and buy an aem one.. its a lot cheaper than apexi. anyone know the stock sr maf size?? 2.75??

[rebornS14]

im going to buy me a apexi intake now. thanks for sharing. +1

comming soon: greddy sr intake for sale w/ s13 sr maf =)

[LongGrain]

i have a blitz.

idk if would be able to fit an apexi filter though, its a really tight squeeze in there.

[Matej]

Sweet I wanted to show this article to my friend.

[Vision Garage]

I got an Apex one for sale ppl BUY IT!

[INeedNewTires]

hell yea! i was wondering about my air filter the other day, my car came with the Apexi and i'm glad now that i've seen this article that it did! Now i know they said Zero maintenance but surely you need to clean it off somehow sometime?! Anyone's input?

[wh0aitznic0]

:-/ I'm running a K&N. Can't really argue with free, though.

[da1ndonly]

yeah i love my apex filter :bowdown:ever since i got it from the apex garage sale last year. I wouldnt change it for any other one. No maintenance just dust it off when it looks a little dusty with an air duster or my compressor and im good to go:hsdance:

[Jza]

Apexi filter requires no maintenance and does the job well. I have that Apexi cone filter on my Toyota. Took the car to the track and I found some fine dust/dirt INSIDE the filter.... alittle disappointed. Figured my TRD drop in filter does a better job on filtering....

[patsilvia]

I am about to buy one. I really wonder what intake pipe you'r using with the Apexi filter?

[clark]

fuck man i have the stuipd HKS one. i knew it wouldn't filter well, but i figured i'd have more gains over the cone type filters. fucking shit.

[kenshinS14sks]

oh nice . . . after i read this i ran out to the parking lot just to make sure . . . and phew . . . apexi yay

[rightcoastimports]

ahhh now you guys are making want to get the apexi...

[Somnambulist]

Awesome so I have the best filter..

[S14DB]

good information but what about AEM? is that just crap so they didn't test it

This is OLD, wasn't out for them to test.

Damn bumpers...

[BlitzRPS13]

Anyone know a place that has the Apex`i filter in stock for Z32 MAF?

[TheSquidd]

This is the fucking dumbest thing I've ever seen.

Sorry, but this test is conducted with tissue paper and a vacuum. Which is what your brain must be made of if you BELIEVE THIS TRIPE.

I refer you to this thread.

http://www.zilvia.net/f/showthread.php?p=1465502#post1465502

Now shut up. And stop trusting everything you see on the internet.

Lock it. Toss away the key.

[rightcoastimports]

This is the fucking dumbest thing I've ever seen.

Sorry, but this test is conducted with tissue paper and a vacuum. Which is what your brain must be made of if you BELIEVE THIS TRIPE.

I refer you to this thread.

http://www.zilvia.net/f/showthread.php?p=1465502#post1465502

Now shut up. And stop trusting everything you see on the internet.

Lock it. Toss away the key.


good shit man.. so you work for K&N huh???

Thanks for making us take a second thought.

[TheSquidd]

I used to work there.

FUCK the people in the marketing department, but that's another story....

Everything I said about their filters is 100% true and more. They go WAY over the line in testing their shit, competitors shit, japanese, chinese taiwanese look-at-these, german, american, paper, foam, synthetic, WHATEVER.

Their philosophy is, the INSTANT they find anything BETTER than what they make is, they will completely change their production line to make THAT. Thing is, they've yet to find (after spending DECADES and millions of dollars testing) anything better than their own technology. Nothing filters more and flows as much.

Some filter more (paper OE filters SOMETIMES)
Some flow more (not running an air filter? Serious, rarely does anything flow as much)
Some hold more dirt (foam, but then the filter falls apart and goes into your cylinder, ask me how many of these bullshit HKS filters I've pulled off my friends cars and the inside of the filter WAS GONE.)

Upside:

Filtration : 96%-99% OR THEY DON'T PUT IT OUT TO MARKET, most of the time, its 98-99%. Period. That's better than MOST OEM paper filtration.

Flow: Virtually unrestricted. Even when FILTHY the filter will flow unrestricted. The filter will flow after you've driven it for 75,000 miles and never even cleaned it. The filter will flow even after you've ran the Baja 1000. Driven around the world. Whatever. The filter will flow, unrestricted, for longer than you can imagine.

Dirt Retention: The common myth is that you should clean your K&N like, every 15,000 miles. WRONG. The CEO of K&N drove an E39 BMW for ... 120,000 miles I think, without ever cleaning his filter. When tested, it still out flowed the OEM paper one out of the BOX. You do not even have to LOOK at your filter, for 50-75,000 miles. And even then, you probably don't have to clean it.

Downs:

Price. Yup. It costs 3x as much as your ebay filter. But that's because 2304,00,00,0,0,00x more money went into MAKING that filter. It was developed by a team of INSANE people (that are actually my friends!) that know so much about air filtration that even speaking to them is an impossible task. They instantly start blabbering about air flow numbers and CFM and loads and dry and wet and humidity blah blah blah.

Also, the materials are TOP notch. Pick up and ebay filter, pick up a K&N air filter, just touch the plastisol around the cotton, and you know where your money went.

The bottom line, Zilvia is full of stupid pricks with JDM paddles shoved up their asses.

They'll buy whatever rainbow colored, Engrish labeled, 400$ MSRP, Foam, piece of shit that a fucking Option video tells them to.

Just know, sure your filter is JDM TIGHT, but you wasted your fucking money.

And those that are buying the cheap shit. KNOW that you are buying a cheap piece of shit that doesnt FLOW FILTER or LAST 1/10th of what a K&N does. Don't go spreading your bullshit fantasy lies about how "filters are filters" or Johnny over at Dieseltruckssuckcock.com ran a filter where he invited a phillipino gimp over and sucked dirt through a bunch of filters with his boyfriends underwear over his mouth, and OMFG JDM BRAND X has MORE LESS DIRT ON IT.

These stupid internet tests dont mean CRAP. Believe me. Just BELIEVE me. I know. I spent 3 YEARS listening to people that have more brainpower than the entire population of Zilvia talk about why our filters are the best. These are people that DONT LIE. They have GIGABYTES of data collected over years by multimillion dollar equipment, they dont have to lie.

Bah whatever go buy your stupid foam cotton candy JDM pansy crap. I will NEVER buy a car with an HKS mushroom-cock-tip filter on it though. Because 9 times out of 10, those cylinder walls are lined with burnt up foam crap.

[rightcoastimports]

^^^ :bow:

Well put.. that must have taken 10 minutes to type all that. But well worth it.

and BTW i've been using K&N oil filters since i bought my spec v in 2003.. and on my s14.

also had K&N air filters as well in all my cars..

[Psycho 240 Freak]

K&N has always been on top in the filter world, but I still don't like the idea about saturating my air filter with oil.

[TheSquidd]

That's fine.

Run foam and enjoy foaming your engine.

Or you could run the Synthetic media and enjoy restrictive air flow that needs to be cleaned every 5000 miles.

Just don't spread a bunch of lies like the article this thread is about. That's all I ask.

If you buy anything else, just understand that you're either dumb or cheap.

[S14DB]

I've been running K&N in various Family and personal vehicles for over 10yrs. Never had a MAF problem. Never seen the oil leach out of the filter unless you squeeze it.

[rightcoastimports]

i ended up going with the AEM dryflow.. part # 21-203dk in case anyones interested. 3 x 5

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g138/RightCoastImports/s14/intake.jpg
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g138/RightCoastImports/s14/intake1.jpg

[yeti303]

that was very thankful thank you,