stainless steel airfilters *thoughts*

[.::F[L]Y::.]

hi fellas,

just wanted some opinions about stainless steel air filters. Im looking to upgrade my air filter as my current comptech one is a POS....i understand that the stainless steel filter will allow for much better air flow. Just wanted to know from those who had a stainless steel filter on their car and their opinions about it.

cheers

[iced]

the airflow and power increase is negligible.
blitz and blitz style as well as hks mushroom and mushrooms style let in alot of dirt. on a 400kw turbo car you will gain not even 0.7kw let alone gains on an n/a car.

the filter to go for are the dry cotton like apexi or oiled cotton like k&n.

[sivic]

yeah they filter like crap.
give them a miss. just go with a K&N.

[.::F[L]Y::.]

what if the stainless steel filter was in an enclosed air box?

Also i thought sponge oiled filters were crap? my current one is a sponge oiled filter and barely allows for any air flow. My second option was the apexi range which seem quite good.

[incoming]

the main issue would be how often u clean/replace ur airfilter..

personally i'd stick with k&n, they got the cleaner kit for the filters

[Limbo]

i had one before they are not that good. I could see a small amout of dirt buildup inside the piping. They look good though. Apexi is supose to be one of the best i saw a test on it. Next is the k&N.

[.::F[L]Y::.]

Limbo- did u have it as an exposed pod or in an enclosed airbox? cus mine will be in an insulated enclosed airbox?

[aimre]

I found a leaf in my civics airbox.... so it being in a box doent help that much :)

[.::F[L]Y::.]

decided to go with the stainless filter for experiment. Installed it today and the car now feels like it revs more freely. Seems to be much louder, and revs seem to pik up quicker...it could all jus be in my mind but yeh...

[Cartoon]

i always wondered the affect of SS filters and piping with heat opposed to the stock plastic piping or CF set up.

any input on this???

[.::F[L]Y::.]

i always wondered the affect of SS filters and piping with heat opposed to the stock plastic piping or CF set up.

any input on this???

Atm im just using my stainless steel filter with my current comptech setup with has plastic piping. I would imagine with steel piping it would attract more heat. The amount of heat that the pod would be exposed to could come down to ur setup and how close the filter is to the motor. Another solution would be to have it in an insulated airbox for maximum efficiency. Heres a pic of my setup :)

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c14/NA088/DSC00247.jpg

[LoiBoi]

fly, i recently brought the apexi power intake air filter with stainless steel piping. and i must say, i notice the increase in HP becos i drove my stock car for many months now and it also makes a nice noise when u rev ur engine or vtec it.
you cant do much about the pipe heating up, but those plastic ones heat up just as much.
I'm gonna make a heat shield on mine to block off the hot air from the radiator fan, i also got a pipe built into my front kit that allows the pod to suck air from. :D

i got mine for $280 including pipe and installation from shift performance. what a bargain! i recommend it. :thumbsup: check my car spec for pics

[Limbo]

Y::.']Limbo- did u have it as an exposed pod or in an enclosed airbox? cus mine will be in an insulated enclosed airbox?

doesn't matter, mine was closed off, but the thing is the filter allows dust to still get inside the plumbing meaning it is not filtering as well as it should

[VT3C]

stainless filters = poor filtration of fine dust particles.

just get a K&N filter.. they are the best allround filters IMO.

[shmivic]

stainless will heat soak itself long before a good k&n will reagrdless of heat sheilding

[LoiBoi]

wouldnt a stock plastic tube heat just as much? cos i know my stock one does.

I wonder if you can heat wrap the tube, becos if those heat wrap can keep hot air from headers getting out, then it can keep hot air from heating the stainless tube.

[locote]

yes wrapping it would work.
i have wrapped my header and even with the heat wave we have had in Perth my engine bay is no were near as hot as it used to be with out the wrapping.
the only problem i see with it is that most ppl get the ssteel intake pipes for the way it looks aswell, and wrapping it in this ugly wrapp is not something they would do:)

[n/a]

yes wrapping it would work.
i have wrapped my header and even with the heat wave we have had in Perth my engine bay is no were near as hot as it used to be with out the wrapping.
the only problem i see with it is that most ppl get the ssteel intake pipes for the way it looks aswell, and wrapping it in this ugly wrapp is not something they would do:)

question with heat wrapping.. the heat wrap stops heat getting through the wrap right? the SS pipping heats up through air flowing through it? so if you heat wrap the pipping it'll still be just as hot if not more, but just giving off less heat?

wouldn't just plastic be better than SS in regards to heat?

[locote]

well that why u have cool air flowing in it.
then the heat wont go through the wrap and the air wont heat up before it gets in the throttle body:)

[LoiBoi]

theres two reason why the intake tube heats up:

1. heat from radiator fan
2. hot air flowing through tube during hot days...

I guess thats why CAI or short tube are better, but I also find out that wrapping the tube to block heat from the radiator fan does help, especially during hot days. That was my suggestion. theres not much you can do about hot air going through the tube.. more expensive CAI such as injen are better if your willing to spend more than twice the amount you normally pay for a normal intake + filter.