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Originally Posted by rudolfgreen
banter aside..  german engineers originally had good design.
there was someone (from pacific nw, originally referenced in one of the many threads on the topic)
that did do a "real" world study and found under normal operating conditions,
the intakes passed more paticulate comparatively to marginal performance gains..
but after seeing the finns use them on their super617, cannot argue with the modification at that level. |
It's probably true that the K&N helps most for high performance engines and probably not at all for regular motors. It can be argued though that 125 hp out of a 183 cid diesel engine designed in the mid 70s may be approaching hipo, relatively speaking.