Are Airaid air filter any good.

[MChrist]

Out of curiosity, I wonder how much dust can get sucked into an engine before it shows up on oil analysis? Almost seems to me that it would take quite a bit.

 

[AH64ID]

Considering silicone readings are in PPM it doesn't take much.

 

[RCMerrill]

The AFE filter is the way to GO. my millage increased 4mpg & my air box gauage doesnt move & the filter recleanable with the kit. just the filter no modifications.

 

[RustyJC]

The AFE filter is the way to GO. my millage increased 4mpg... ... .

Wow!! With current and future CAFE standards being what they are, the Dodge engineers would throw their mothers under a bus for this! :-laf



Rusty

 

[HBarlow]

The AFE filter is the way to GO. my millage increased 4mpg & my air box gauage doesnt move & the filter recleanable with the kit. just the filter no modifications.

Wow, that's very impressive. If I install two AFE filters would it give me an 8 mpg increase?

If I install with dual exhausts I could probably double that to a gain of 16 mpg and a total of 32 mpg.

 

[RustyJC]

Be careful, Harvey. You'll wind up like my pore ole friend years ago. He had the fuel line magnets, the magic vortex turbulence generator, a K&N air filter, etc. , etc. on his beat up old '56 Chevy. Heck, he probably had a Fish carburetor on it, too. It was a real pain to go anywhere with him because every 100 miles we had to stop and drain 5 gallons of gas out of the fuel tank. :-laf



Rusty

 

[Prairie Dog]

Whoo boy, tough room today. .

 

[HBarlow]

Be careful, Harvey. You'll wind up like my pore ole friend years ago. He had the fuel line magnets, the magic vortex turbulence generator, a K&N air filter, etc. , etc. on his beat up old '56 Chevy. Heck, he probably had a Fish carburetor on it, too. It was a real pain to go anywhere with him because every 100 miles we had to stop and drain 5 gallons of gas out of the fuel tank. :-laf

Rusty

Does JC Whitney still sell those fuel line magnets and the vortex turbulence generators? I remember years ago when those were advertised. I know they worked great, just like K&N filters, diesel fuel additive, Amway synthetic oil and lubes, and all the other good stuff.

If JC Whitney still offers those for sale I could install them and then reverse the fuel transfer pump on my Transfer Fuel tank so that it pumps fuel from my main tank into the TF aux tank. As I drive along saving so much fuel I'm making excess I could transfer it into the TF tank and then once a day, stop at a truck stop. I could hang around out front catching fellow RVers coming in for fuel and sell them my excess for $2 or $2. 50/ gallon.

I think we're on to something, Rusty. We'd better take this off the forum and only discuss it in PMs so the rest of the TDR members don't learn about it.

 

[RustyJC]

I think maybe I've found a source of income for my retirement! Oo. PM on the way!!!



Rusty

 

[Grizzly]

Harvey and Rusty,



Are you saying that RCMerrill is slightly exaggerating?



You know that the best way to increase your fuel mileage is to just lie about it.



george

 

[MChrist]

Want a good chuckle at my expense?... I BOUGHT one of those "vortex generators"!!! Even funnier, was that I installed it into one of the big trucks I was doing testing on, and the driver saw me doing it. He went home and I stayed later than he did, making adjustments to this thing. I ended up taking it out because it didn't fit good enough for me. The next day, the same driver came up to me, all excited, raving about how the truck feels like it has "another 100 horsepower!!!"
I didn't have the heart to tell him the part was still on my workbench. The power of suggestion is a mighty powerful thing...

 

[AH64ID]

You know that the best way to increase your fuel mileage is to just lie about it.

Is it lying if I have proof. .

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A 4 mpg gain from a filter means 1 of 2 things, 1 you were using a 1. 2L Geo Metro filter first, or your lying...

 

[mpaulson]

yea, I did that also and hit 112 mpg once. Reseting it at the top of a really long down grade does wonders. It was about a 18km stretch ranging in the 6 to 11% range.

 

[steved]

I have one of the early third gen filter minders that would suck down with a purely stock eng. For those of you that don't remember, Dodges fix for this was to install a less sensitive minder rather than free up the air box's ability to breath.

It wasn't the filter causing the filter-minder to pull in... it is the factory box. There has to be a restriction in the inner fender (too many nooks and crannies??).



I hated this when I first got my truck, one hard run on even a new filter would pull the filter minder in... I even ran a Amsoil Tru-Flo foam filter for a while, then took a leap and drilled ten 1-inch holes in the bottom of the factory box (like I had in my 99). I haven't pulled the filter-minder in since then running nothing more than a standard 2-inch replacement filter... even running a SmartyJR.



My filter-minder is the same one that originally came with the truck... its never been replaced.



On a side note, in one my many x-country excursions, I talked to a hot-shotter in TX back in 04 who had a black 3500. We were talking, and he indicated his factory air box had been replaced FIVE TIMES by dodge because he had literally sucked the filter into the intake tube... the box and tubing under his hood looked nothing like any I have seen since, and it had every indication it was a factory piece. He said that one was working well.

 

[AH64ID]

Adding the home depot CAI made a huge difference in my filter minder moving, especially after the cam.

 

[Grizzly]

Is it lying if I have proof. .



#ad




A 4 mpg gain from a filter means 1 of 2 things, 1 you were using a 1. 2L Geo Metro filter first, or your lying...

I've seen 99. 9 mpg avg eco on my Avalon.



george

 

[steved]

This is what I did to mine, I doubt you'd need more unless you were in the high HP area... took this today since I had it out replacing the alternator.

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[AH64ID]

This is what I did to mine, I doubt you'd need more unless you were in the high HP area... took this today since I had it out replacing the alternator.



#ad

Isn't that pulling from the hot engine bay thou? Seems counter-productive.

 

[steved]

One of our members (Gary) did a test to see how "hot" the under hood really is... it turned out that the under hood really isn't that hot.

I have seen ZERO issues from doing this mod... I've towed as heavy as most, I get better mileage than most. I have only seen good results from completing this mod. The best part, it cost me nothing but a few minutes of time... the results were immediate and I'm not having to question whether my filter choice is as good as OE paper because its still an OE paper filter in place.

I have had this done since about 15k miles... I sit with 245k on the clock.

 

[AH64ID]

I guess if it works... .

The underhood is much hotter than ambient thou, and 3rd gens run much cooler intake air temps than 2nd gens, and doesn't Gary have a 2nd gen? Just stating that if you compare under-hood to intake it will be much closer on a 2nd gen. Stock I ran about 15-45* above ambient depending on load, with the home depot CAI and GDP horn it dropped to 6-45* over ambient, normally 6-20*. . now with the Garrett it runs 5-25* over!!! I don't think it could be anywhere near that low pulling air from the engine bay, but then again maybe its not enough to worry about.