73 220d manual... was wondering if anyone out there had modified their stock oil bath air cleaner with one of those new types of fabric conical k&n type filter... and if so what did you do?... im sure more air would be good as well as not having to fiddle with that oil and whatnot... thanks!

I had to eliminate the stock MB filter on my diesel conversion because of size constraints. I fabricated a custom system. Personally I wouldn't go with a gauze/oil filter, but employ a disposable paper type element. (You did say you didn't want to fiddle with that oil and whatnot, right? The filtering action is essentially the same with what you've got...oil traps airborne particles)

This should get interesting really quick with both sides of the debate springing into action....

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