K&N air filters

watermill · Post by **watermill** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:13 pm

Hello !

I am thinking of buying K&N air filter for my 2002 SDI Polo. I would like to know has anyone of you tried their products ? I read a review about them and the information there was quite different, one was saying that he experienced increase of HP and lower fuel consumption, another post was saying; don't buy this air filter, it's expensive and not as good as ordinary paper filters as K&N filter was also pulling in some dust. Maybe some one has tried them ?

Thank you.

lolhoward · Post by **lolhoward** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:59 pm

You mean filter or induction kit mate?

watermill · Post by **watermill** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 8:50 am

Air filter.

lolhoward · Post by **lolhoward** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:15 am

I bought two to replace my standard panel filters. Just better as they last forever. Might make the car a tiny tiny bit more responsive but you wont really get any gains from them. Better than standard though and wont cause any problems as there just a different design to standard filters and work in the same way. Hope this helps.

Tim_GTi · Post by **Tim_GTi** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 3:08 pm

They were used in the 6N2 rally so they've got to do something right!

lolhoward · Post by **lolhoward** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 4:00 pm

Tim_GTi wrote:They were used in the 6N2 rally so they've got to do something right!

2 things I never knew.....

A 6N2 rally

and that they used K&F filters

Tim_GTi · Post by **Tim_GTi** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 4:18 pm

you learn something new everyday

drewbar · Post by **drewbar** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 6:01 pm

All the guys on SeatCupraNet reckomended the green panel filter, no one said anything bad about the k&n though, they reckon that you can heard the turbo a bit more on the pd100 and pd130 engines

polospeed · Post by **polospeed** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 7:52 pm

I want one also going to drill my air box but just need to pluck up the courage lol

fivetones · Post by **fivetones** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:05 pm

My K&N panel and the pd160 inlet have just gone on my tdi sport (1.9/100pd).

Noticeable improvement to pickup and it revs out better. Not that is revs out well still but it's a TDI, what you gonna do

.

Measured economy looking to be a touch better but not much.

smithysmoo · Post by **smithysmoo** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 5:14 pm

Where did you get the pd160 inlet from mate and is it a straight swap.

Cheers

fivetones · Post by **fivetones** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 5:28 pm

smithysmoo wrote:Where did you get the pd160 inlet from mate and is it a straight swap.

Cheers

Yeah, straight swap. You can get the inlet pipe from Seat. I got mine second hand. Maybe ask on the seat cupra forum?

I also modified the inlet flap at the front (it's obvious which bits to remove when you take it off to fit the inlet).

I'm very pleased with the results. The car is much much nippier now.

I still get up to 65 mpg too.

pip_polo · Post by **pip_polo** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 6:03 pm

polospeed wrote:I want one also going to drill my air box but just need to pluck up the courage lol

drill it.. pfft.. do what i did, cut the whole bottom of the box off

my car sounds beefy but like a tractor when cold.

fivetones · Post by **fivetones** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 9:08 pm

The troube with butchering the air box is the drawing in of hot engine bay air. Esp. on modern cars with undertrays.

Modded cold air inlet is a better approach if you ask me.

pip_polo · Post by **pip_polo** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:53 pm

my undertray got ripped off on some A road