steelbytes wrote:
Wemoto.com.au Bought two to justify the postage and i get the feeling I'm going to be replacing frequently
Now if only my new tyres would arrive then i could go on a road trip. Pirelli Diablo before anyone asks
I just had a look at their website and it looks like they sell the HIFlo brand part N AH2826. If that is what you just bought, HiFlo are good OEM replacement filter and cheaper than OEM..
Mind you, I can't find that part number on the HiFlo catalogue, so I'm not sure..
Now I just had a look at your first post again..
The part inside the red is completely caked with oil and dirt therefore not filtering air any more at all. That would explain your drop in performance as you only had about half filter available of air intake..
You are right about replacing that filter more frequently as that is really bad (for a filter, not for the engine)
Now if you look inside the airbox (the part you have removed) there is a little rubber snorkle inside that make the fresh air going in at the bottom of the filter box instead of the top and to some extent, dropping noise level down a bit. You can remove that bit, and that will allows fresh air to get sucked in by the filter from the top and not just from the bottom (where your filter is very dirty).. You don't have to break anything to perform this little modification, and it may helps a bit to get the filter used a bit more uniformly. There will be no increase in performance what so ever..