Hi All
I have recently bought a Blaze GTi-6 which has a K&N 57i induction kit on it and an uprated nissen Rad.

I am looking to service the car before a i do a road trip with friends in mid May and when I had a look at the Filter on the 57i it was covered in dirt and oil.
Do i replace it with one of those green cone filters or a K&N filter or can I wash it?

All so what off the shelf spark plugs should i use?

All the best
Dai

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What Will said.

When you clean the filte though hot soapy water and a brush
will do fine. A hair dryer speeds up the drying process. Its pointless applying the oil that the k&n kit provide to put on once it's clean. If anything it just attracts dirt and doesn't give as easy breathing as running it without the oil does.

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But the cotton itself will stop this. I have run all my panel
filters dry for years and no problems. It still traps the dirt as it should.

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Woah! How much is a panel filter for that??

Panel filter for the 6 = £40.

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currently abusing type r's in a town near you ™
I truely live for the 306 ®
Build date: 29th October 1997 Wednesday's car
midweek madness

For info on how a K&N filter works, see this: http://www.aptfast.com/kn_additional_stuff/KN_airfilter_facts.htm

(It is a bit of a marketing blurb from K&N so don't expect all sides of the argument!).

Personally I am a bit lukewarm about K&N filters in general as, despite any marketing blurb, logic says they must let larger particles into the engine - even when properly oiled, i.e. better flow = bigger holes through which the air flows = larger particles in your engine. How can it be otherwise? My car came with a K&N cone filter installed and I am considering returning it to stock. On the other hand they have sold untold millions of these things and most people seem happy with them.

If there is oil in your intake system it is either because the filter was well over-oiled, or because you have clogged breather hoses or even a worn engine. Is the oil in your intake system K&N oil or engine oil? K&N says (see link above) that a properly oiled filter will not let excess oil into the intake system, and there are arguments all over the internet about whether or not the filter oil is clogging air flow sensors.

I would clean the filter, re-oil it as per instructions, clean out the breather hoses and reassemble, checking it after a few hundred miles. Or perhaps return it to stock.

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