Re: K&N FIPK: Worth it?
I have had mine installed for over a year now and have no regrets.
It completely surprises me that any air at all gets through the stock setup (which tries to suck air through a quarter sized hole, then through my grandma's wool sweater, then down the hallway, around the corner, then into the basement). Jeffrey Leonard <jeffl@quasii.net> wrote in message news:<bfqkae$6ut$0@pita.alt.net>... > Here's a serious Jeep question: > > What's the dilly-o with the K&N FIPK? I'm skeptical. It has a filter end > that has about the same surface area as a flat K&N filter that you might > find in a Wrangler air box. > > But the actual route that the air takes down that bent tube once it's > past the filter end is LONGER in comparison with the path it takes from > the normal airbox to the throttle. > > A bottleneck is a bottleneck, no? And with any fluid system, be it gas > or liquid, the longer the bottleneck, the more restrictive that path is. > I'm not convinced that more air is getting shoved down that longer tube. > I would think that a path that's half the distance is going to deliver > the air with less turbulence and resistance. > > What do you guys think? |
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