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Originally Posted by Rocket99
Don't tell me .... you, of all people, one of THE grand old men of the Mercedes boards .... gives a damn much what others admonish you for doing? OK. I guess. Not me though.
I'm 67 and do not expect to , I intend not to, outlive my current OM617 and the smidgeon less engine life that could happen as a result of K&N.. Fugit.
That settles it. Im going to try one.
I suspect diluted Superclean degreaser might be a good cleaning agent for that occasional cleaning of the K&N, no big concern about some engine oil on it.
That idean of sealing the oil condening chamber inside the stock 617 turbo air cleaner sounds good.
I asked Gus at Pacific Fuel Injection about the K&N, he commented those FI pumps are calibrated to deliver fuel proportional with a normal paper filter in the intake air. He was inferring messing with intake air volume may throw that off.
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I just thought that the guy ought to know a hint of other opinions on the K&N.
My views are clear in an older thread.
And, I did change to another type of air filter.
I could not see retaining the Stock Air Filter that was getting saturated and ruined with Oil Vapor and needed to be replaced more frequently because of that.
So in fact that sort of stuck me with the K&N till I found another solution I considered better. I also like the fact that the Fram Filters are washable and also have the same wasable filter on my Volvo Diesel and a direct replacment Fram washable Filter on my Van, So that little bit of knowlege was extremely helpful.
Some of the detractions in using the K&N is the expense of special Oil and Cleaner K&N Air Filter and the cleaning is more complicated and you need more care in cleaning and drying.
However, I used the K&N fir 4 years and I never found anything gritty behind/inside the air filter housing sticking on the Oil film left from the Oil Vapor. I think you would expect that if the Filter was not working well.
I can't comment on Gassers but Diesels always have an excess of Air if the air inlet system is normal so you can't get too much air into it. Also the Turbo pumps in more air and increase the air density in the Cylinders. But then the ADLA on the Fuel Injection Pump compensates for that.
If you like math the Wix Filter site has the cubic feet pre minute their version of the stock filter can handle. Figure out how much air flow needs to get into the cylinders and you will have your answer.