The K&N is just an air filter made of foam that needs to be oiled, instead of just a paper air filter. I dont know where all these claims of the K&N wrecking components comes from. As someone said overoiling the airfilter shouldnt even be a big deal. There is pretty much always oil in the intake at all points. The crankcase is vented into the intake meaning that oil makes its way in there also. Take off your intake boot and look inside of it, it is probably coated with a film of oil. There is probably enough in there that if you tilt it and wait awhile it will begin to drip out. So the little extra oil that the intake would see from the K&N should not matter. It is not going to kill anything unless there was enough oil to get burned off, and coat the O2 sensor with deposits, or if the K&N oil itself can kill the O2 sensor. Both of which i really doubt would happen. The only thing i could see killing the engine is that the K&N doesnt filter the air as good as a paper airfilter, and somehow enough debris got in there to mess things up. Which again i doubt would happen, although i did read some article about truck drivers that stopped using K&N because of this reason.
Dont worry its just an airfilter, nothing more hightech than that. -Denis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Frank" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 12:04 PM Subject: Re: [A2-16v] K&N filters and the 16v > ok then, the K&N's wont hurt your mass air meter, but what about the O2 > sensor? i have heared that the K&N's can wreck them. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "DocWyte" <[email protected]> > To: "Lewis, Ryan" <[email protected]>; "A2_16v (E-mail)" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 4:43 AM > Subject: RE: [A2-16v] K&N filters and the 16v > > > > Ok, the air sensor plates DO NOT fail when you run a > > K&N!!!!!! > > > > What people are talking about with mass air meters and > > K&N's ONLY refers to the newer cars, from '99.5 and > > up. > > > > A K&N WILL NOT hurt your A2!!! > > > > -josh > > > > > > --- "Lewis, Ryan" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Please forgive me for being Naïve. :-) > > > > > > Does anyone know why the sensor plates fail, or is > > > it just too much sludge build up on the electric > > > contacts within the sensor plate module? Does the > > > K&N filter let soo much more air in that the plates > > > get slammed too hard when you punch the throttle? > > > > > > ===== > > Josh Wyte > > Momentum Motorsports > > 508-833-3024 After 5 pm EST > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs > > http://www.hotjobs.com > > _______________________________________________ > > A2-16v mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://maillist.myip.org/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v > > For list archives, see listinfo link above. > > _______________________________________________ > A2-16v mailing list > [email protected] > http://maillist.myip.org/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v > For list archives, see listinfo link above. >
