Other K&N Oil filters besides HP-2001?

[sdstick]

Glad you didnt take my post as a ....doesnt apply to my question OR my car...

You took it like I did.... as to what product lines are doing the job best.
Never know whats in a filter.

Ruling out cost & calculating was exactly what I planned to do, I didnt want a good filter bumped because of cost. I dont change them so often that a $1 or $2 would bother me.

At least your K&N choice was a contender

[TWX]

Originally Posted by sdstick

Glad you didnt take my post as a ....doesnt apply to my question OR my car...

You took it like I did.... as to what product lines are doing the job best.
Never know whats in a filter.

Ruling out cost & calculating was exactly what I planned to do, I didnt want a good filter bumped because of cost. I dont change them so often that a $1 or $2 would bother me.

At least your K&N choice was a contender

Yeah, having real data, even if not on the exact same product, can be helpful. I would expect that these companies' filters in the same series all have similar design and construction, just with a form factor reflecting the need. It would be nice to see a study done that actually compared filters that fit this car, but I don't have the several hundred dollars to just buy the filters simply to cut them up, let alone find ways of testing their flow characteristics (requiring another set of filters!).

I've heard people bag on some brands of filters because they opened them and found metal in the filter. Thing is, there was no damage in the filter itself, so the metal was probably from the engine, not from the filter, and the filter stopped it from flowing. A lot of people didn't get that.

[Jim Spahr]

Another way to introduce metal in the filter is to cut the filter open with a hack saw or a cut off tool. There are special devices to cleanly cut open the filter without leaving metal particles inside. It looks like a large pipe cutter.

[Ztater]

gotta ask anyone ever used the ss-2001 k&n oil filter