Nothing like taking an engine good for a few hundred thousand as engineered, then screwing it all up with a "filter" that does little to filter out the finest particles - the ones that do the real damage. You're good for maybe 50,000 miles and by then you'll be burning a lot of oil.

What do plan to do with breather oil? Just let it pour all over the turbo and exhaust manifold?

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2009 ML350
2004 SL600
2004 SL500
1996 SL600
2002 SLK32
2005 CLK320 cabrio
2003 ML350
1997 C280 Sport

haha you guys are sure different then other car guys I know.

Glad you seem to know it all Guess I should quit my day job then

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1982 240D
2001 Ford Powerstroke (SVO converted)
2005 Lotus Elise
2008 Lexus IS-F

Yea, we're not smart enough to just replace the cracked rubber hose. We also foolishly stick with the proven intake system.
Boy, I guess we're no engineers.......

And you ask for comments, then when I guess we don't tell you how clever you are you come up with the "gold" in your above quote.

It was a very clever and impressive fix. MB engineers are scrambling to beat you to the patent office in the morning. We will await our next high mileage badge with your picture on it........

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'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

just keep the filter well oiled, and put a breather hose filter on the tube.

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82' 300SD

Parts are available and cheap... put it back to original I say...

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84 Cressida
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80 Fiesta
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Contessa

What everyone is trying to say is the K&N filters don't perform well. You can do a search and find this out easily. The stock filters are more than adequate and do the job properly.
Look good....Yes. Perform good.....NO.

My comment:
Ditch EGR altogether, you don't need it.

You really went around the block on this one. Most people would have cut a 1/2 inch off that hose and stuck it back on.

Danny

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I don't really know, but 50,000 miles seems a little low, my guess would be closer to 100,000 miles,,, unless of course another hose breaks. On the other hand,,, if it does last another 100,000 miles, or even 50,000 miles, and by that time the car is 30-35 years old,,, I don't see any harm in the substandard, inferiorly modified intake. But resale value just dropped a few hundred bucks.

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