![]() ![]() When applying oil you don't need to drown it. After drying gently tap the filter sideways against your hand or arm and make sure no excess water is coming out of the paper/mesh. ![]() The filter should be almost white if it's properly cleaned instead of black like when it was dirty. Then what i do is take a little box, lay it sideways, put the filter in it with the inlet facing out, direct a fan (nothing powerful) right at It for 15 minutes to dry it out. Do not directly rinse the outside of the filter. When cleaning just spray the outside with a cleaner, properly rinse out by directing water to the inside. Whether that's a problem for you is up to you to decide. Generally speaking though, if you don't change the area at all but are now able to flow more air, that basically means you have less restriction, and with less restriction I would bet you probably actually have less filtering. The paper filter probably has a little overhead and excess flow built in, but maybe not a ton. However, start changing cams and porting heads and swapping exhaust or basically anything that affects air flow through the engine and that equation starts changing. I have no doubt that a stock paper filter flows exactly as much as it needs to flow for a totally unmodified car and that a fiber filter likely offers no real benefit. However, once you start changing things is where the water gets murkier. The engineers developed the whole setup and tested a bunch of different options, I can guarantee that. I remember **** Winkles saying something along the lines of the cloth style filters offered no noticeable difference on a stock engine, but that's just it, a "stock" engine. ![]()
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