How to clean KN filter on Injen CAI system???

AMTEXX · 12-21-2007, 03:52 PM

How do you guys clean yours? Jack up the car? Take wheel off? I'm not mech. inclined and I don't want to pull the fender well piece off and break those clips or anything. How long do you go before cleaning your KNs?

Thanks!

AMTEXX · 12-21-2007, 09:04 PM

Help Bump!!!

JD_STI · 12-21-2007, 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by AMTEXX

I don't want to pull the fender well piece off and break those clips or anything.

That's the easiest way. In about 15 minutes you could have the front jacked up, take the wheel off, and remove a few plastic clips, then remove the filter unit. You don't have to take the entire fender liner off, just enough to bend it back to get to the filter. Or I suppose you could take the entire bumper off, or even the right fender. This may take a few hours. Take your pic.

**TRM** · 12-22-2007, 04:52 AM

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Originally Posted by JD_STI

That's the easiest way.

agreed! best to clean those things regularly too.

AMTEXX · 12-22-2007, 07:21 AM

Any way to just take off the entire unit and slide it through, into the engine bay again? Just do it that way?

Thanks guys

JD_STI · 12-22-2007, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by AMTEXX

Any way to just take off the entire unit and slide it through, into the engine bay again? Just do it that way?

Thanks guys

No. No. Think about that for just a second. How big is the hole in the engine bay sidewall where the CAI piping feeds through?...just big enough to fit the piping through it. How do you expect that filter to be pulled through a hole thats half it's diameter. THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO DO IT!

AMTEXX · 12-22-2007, 09:36 AM

Dang it!!! How often do you guys clean yours? I'm at 10K since my last cleaning. Didn't I read somewhere that they actually product more HP when dirty?

GCtoSTI · 12-23-2007, 08:58 AM

haha silly cold air intake guy..lol if you don't like the cold air intake cleaning method switch to a short ram.

and no.. clogged filter = slow car.

cleaning a k/n style filter really depends on how much you drive it and where you live.

i clean mine when it looses that red oil color and you can see the black dirt.

plain and simple.

inlovewithb00st · 12-26-2007, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by GCtoSTI

haha silly cold air intake guy..lol if you don't like the cold air intake cleaning method switch to a short ram.

and no.. clogged filter = slow car.

cleaning a k/n style filter really depends on how much you drive it and when you live.

i clean mine when it looses that red oil color and you can see the black dirt.

plain and simple.

+1

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12-21-2007, 09:04 PM	#2
AMTEXX STI Driver Car: black 05 Sti Posts: 259 Join Date: Jul 2007 Trader Rating: (0)	Re: How to clean KN filter on Injen CAI system??? Help Bump!!!

12-22-2007, 07:21 AM	#5
AMTEXX STI Driver Car: black 05 Sti Posts: 259 Join Date: Jul 2007 Trader Rating: (0)	Re: How to clean KN filter on Injen CAI system??? Any way to just take off the entire unit and slide it through, into the engine bay again? Just do it that way? Thanks guys

12-22-2007, 09:36 AM	#7
AMTEXX STI Driver Car: black 05 Sti Posts: 259 Join Date: Jul 2007 Trader Rating: (0)	Re: How to clean KN filter on Injen CAI system??? Dang it!!! How often do you guys clean yours? I'm at 10K since my last cleaning. Didn't I read somewhere that they actually product more HP when dirty?

12-23-2007, 08:58 AM	#8
GCtoSTI Senior STI Driver Car: 04 wrb sti sil/bbs Fav Mod: air conditioning... Location: tri-states Posts: 301 Join Date: Oct 2006 Trader Rating: (0)	Re: How to clean KN filter on Injen CAI system??? haha silly cold air intake guy..lol if you don't like the cold air intake cleaning method switch to a short ram. and no.. clogged filter = slow car. cleaning a k/n style filter really depends on how much you drive it and where you live. i clean mine when it looses that red oil color and you can see the black dirt. plain and simple. Last edited by GCtoSTI : 12-27-2007 at 03:42 PM.