My Mazda's getting special treatment

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:11 pm

i was expecting scantly clad women draped over your car "waxing" it

Brandon_k_W · Post by **Brandon_k_W** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:14 pm

What's the advantage of that over a regular air filter? K&N's are like $50

Spammy · Post by **Spammy** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:15 pm

Blow up your car and ride your bike man...

BrandonB · Post by **BrandonB** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:29 pm

Brandon_k_W wrote:What's the advantage of that over a regular air filter? K&N's are like $50

you dont have to replace K&N filters... never...

AAF Striker · Post by **AAF Striker** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:52 pm

Whitewulf wrote:you dont have to replace K&N filters... never...

nightowl · Post by **nightowl** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:53 pm

what mazda do you have?

wee96 · Post by **wee96** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 7:05 pm

95 Protege. K&N air filters have better airflow than most paper filters and can be cleaned instead of constantly changing them which is the main reason I wanted it. Its debateable on if it gives you any kind of performance gain though, what maybe 1hp at most?

Oil filters important because you dont want the thing falling apart (FRAM!?!?)

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 7:15 pm

i think i remember someone on here saying there is really no performance increase on a stock intake.

wee96 · Post by **wee96** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 7:16 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:i think i remember someone on here saying there is really no performance increase on a stock intake.

Yea, some will say you might be able to dyno out an extra horsepower, but I think it all depends on the car. It does provide better airflow though.

Prey521 · Post by **Prey521** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:10 pm

Yeah, K&N's never need to be replaced (1 Million mile guarantee), just cleaned every 50K miles. Before my intake, it's what I used, and you do get better airflow and slight gain in fuel economy. I've used it on every car I've ever owned....currently have a K&N cone on my intake, love it, loud as hell!!

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:15 pm

Brandon_k_W wrote:What's the advantage of that over a regular air filter? K&N's are like $50

I can see an advantage maybe on the air filter,but
I was gonna ask that about the oil filter! how can that be "preformance" ?

in all my years,I've never seen any brand of oil filter "fall apart" , but whatever floats you're boat.

Prey521 · Post by **Prey521** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:18 pm

Dan wrote:I can see an advantage maybe on the air filter,but
I was gonna ask that about the oil filter! how can that be "preformance" ?

in all my years,I've never seen any brand of oil filter "fall apart" , but whatever floats you're boat.

http://www.knfilters.com/oilfilter.htm

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:26 pm

Prey521 wrote:http://www.knfilters.com/oilfilter.htm

LOL ya thats K&N's site, no biggy,I'm sure it's a great filter,I used to run k&n's in my harley.

ya still need to change a oil filter every 3k miles anyway! (IMO)

I'm not trying to be the devils advocate,(or maybe I am !LOL*

I would rather see some "splitfire" plugs in there or whatever.,for the extra money.

Prey521 · Post by **Prey521** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:31 pm

Dan wrote:LOL ya thats K&N's site, no biggy,I'm sure it's a great filter,I used to run k&n's in my harley.

ya still need to change a oil filter every 3k miles anyway! (IMO)

I'm not trying to be the devils advocate,(or maybe I am !LOL*

I would rather see some "splitfire" plugs in there or whatever.,for the extra money.

Bosch Platinum plugs make my car run like complete crap, who makes the splitfires?

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:35 pm

my bikes ran great on these

http://www.splitfire.com/advantage.html

IMO these are very good plugs

http://www.splitfire.com/products.htm
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and ,uh,I think you're really like this product Prey!

Prey521 · Post by **Prey521** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:42 pm

LMAO, I bet that Brent may have a plug or 2 for her!

Altimas run best on NGK plugs, so I'll stick with those till I get another car and try out those splitfires.

BrandonB · Post by **BrandonB** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:48 pm

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you sure? all you gotta do is clean it everyonce and a while...

Prey521 · Post by **Prey521** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:50 pm

Depends on your driving conditions, website recommends every 50K miles. I cleaned it every oil change, but thats only cause I am neurotic, lol

RoscoPColtrane · Post by **RoscoPColtrane** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:51 pm

my k&n gave me way better throttle responce, then when i gutted my airbox it seemed to double!

More air the marrier!

Loonatic · Post by **Loonatic** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:07 pm

Oil filter isnt something to skimp on, either are spark plugs. Dont buy into that Bosch +4 crap.

wee96 · Post by **wee96** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:11 pm

Dan wrote:I can see an advantage maybe on the air filter,but
I was gonna ask that about the oil filter! how can that be "preformance" ?

in all my years,I've never seen any brand of oil filter "fall apart" , but whatever floats you're boat.

I dont remember saying it was performance, oh wait I didnt. When I said fall apart people have had the internal structure of FRAM's deposit crap into the engine, or basically fail. I would have thought "in all your years" you would know that.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:16 pm

Brent wrote:i was expecting scantly clad women draped over your car "waxing" it

Hawt!

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:17 pm

wee96 wrote:I dont remember saying it was performance, oh wait I didnt. When I said fall apart people have had the internal structure of FRAM's deposit crap into the engine, or basically fail. I would have thought "in all your years" you would know that.

ok with all you're sarcasm aside,

I did'nt say YOU said performance,I was just going off of what the f****** thing says on the box. LOL

and you did say "thing falling apart",and again I will say that I've never seen a oil filter fall apart.

and all I meant in "all my years" was that I have been driving some good cars,and some POS cars ,for a long time.

I'm sure the k&n oil filter is very good and it's a good thing.

relax

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:18 pm

Pics of car, wee?

wee96 · Post by **wee96** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:21 pm

Dan wrote:ok with all you're sarcasm aside,

I did'nt say YOU said performance,I was just going off of what the f****** thing says on the box. LOL

and you did say "thing falling apart",and again I will say that I've never seen a oil filter fall apart.

and all I meant in "all my years" was that I have been driving some good cars,and some POS cars ,for a long time.

I'm sure the k&n oil filter is very good and it's a good thing.

relax

Dont make me step on you

You know I was just rattlin you Dan

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:23 pm

JBKM wrote:my k&n gave me way better throttle responce, then when i gutted my airbox it seemed to double!

Bigger

of avatar!

wee96 · Post by **wee96** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:24 pm

Cabledude wrote:Pics of car, wee?

Of the Mazda? Its nothing to look at, just my lil dependable work car.

AAF Striker · Post by **AAF Striker** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:25 pm

I was running an NGK plug, worked great. I am giving Bosch a shot, I have heard mixed results, I will give them a whirl though...

wee96 · Post by **wee96** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:28 pm

Ive got Bosch's in the Mazda, theyve been good so far.

Loonatic · Post by **Loonatic** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:33 pm

Autolite's for the Regal. The colder range (104's) help fight detonation from the added boost