I am thinking about adding A K&N inflow system to my new '06 GTO,any advice on this would be great. I installed one on my '05 YUKON XL along with 3" flowmaster dual exaust and was very pleased.The throttle response improved nicely,picked up about 3 miles per gallon and of course it sounds great.Should i upgrade exaust system on my GTO,or just go with an inflow system now? Is there a better inflow system then K&N?Thanks.....

Moved this one.

I have the K&N on my 04 and I love it. I wouldn't necessarily call it a "cold" air induction more of a "greater air flow" induction.

I'm looking forward to when I get my catback exhaust to see how they both work in conjunction with each other.

If I had it to do all over, I would have done long tube headers with the K&N CAI. Instead, I did the K&N...then Magnaflow catback. I like the sound very much, but before installation of my Kooks long tube headers and catted (high flow cats) mid-pipes, I felt ike I lost a bit of low end torque. I do not have anything to quantify this except for the seat of my pants.

In any event, the K&N fitment was fine. However, I have heard some complain that the intake tube was too close to a pulley. This caused a hole to be worn in the intake tube. I am not certain whether or not this is a model year issue. Also, I do not know if the discussion pertained to the K&N Air Charger system specifically.

-K

hey i got a question, im looking at KN website and they say the aircharger system aint legal in california, hence where i live so that aint a option. so when i looked at the typhoon series it says it isn't CARB exempt, meaning is it still illegal then? hate california's emission laws, they dont even work!

I like Volant because it has an airbox.

umm thanks?

K&N seems to be the filter of choice over here.

Or King Dragon filters if you get them over there

Watch your self on the CARB exempt, I paid extra for that on my other car just to find out that I would have to go to the smog ref. So I just but the stock box on for smog. One of the joys of CA living.

Um...a K&N air filter will not protect your engine. They are garbage and that is a fact. I can't believe so many people get on this bandwagon. You know what *I* do? IF I feel like I need to get more air into my engine...say at the dragstrip....I simply REMOVE the stock air filter, race, then re-install it. Works good, lasts LONGtime and it's FREE. And you won't wear your engine out prematurely. If you guys all wanna learn the hard way, suit yourself. :-)

One thing you must know about the K&N is that the oil on the filter will get on MAF and the MAF has a hard time burning the oil off.

I'm not as pessimistic as mechanic.

I have 20K plus miles on the K&N filter in my GTO.

I have 50K plus miles on the K&N filter in my GTP.

ZERO engine problems if you make sure not to overoil it. Only problems are with people who see the need to go crazy with the filter oil. They will be the last filters I ever have to buy. :)

Very good point.

KN has a lot to lose if their warranty doesn't meet expectations, and yea you obviously ram more air in the engine if you take the filter off. but were comparing this to an obvious over improvement on a restricted air box, you cant go wrong with KN cold air intakes. they work, i mean don't expect huge results but they benifet the car

I have to say that the K&N CAI combined with the RK Sport "Ram Air" hood helps cooler air get to the engine. The stock '04 flat hood certainly did force more engine air into the CAI but a major difference was realized when the hood was replaced.

Andrew

agreed, just go for it, however i feel for my fellow cali neighbors.the 05 model has been carb exempt but for the 06 the are still working on it

I like Volant...so does my GTO:)

Ok...here's good question to ponder...everyone has an "opinion" on how much of an "improvement" they THINK they have seen by putting on a CAI with a K&N filter, or something similar. Hell, just lastnight in Reno I had a guy SWEAR to me that when he put on his CAI and K&N that his mileage went up to 28-29 hwy on his M6 LS2. *I* raised the BS flag. Is there any PROOF of this? Has anyone done a baseline dyno run with a stock airbox and filter than then put on a CAI with a K&N and done another run to compare numbers? I have never seen this anywhere before. I want someone to put their money where their mouth is. I'm skeptical.

The Volant looks cool, so I win:)

Ok...here's good question to ponder...everyone has an "opinion" on how much of an "improvement" they THINK they have seen by putting on a CAI with a K&N filter, or something similar. Hell, just lastnight in Reno I had a guy SWEAR to me that when he put on his CAI and K&N that his mileage went up to 28-29 hwy on his M6 LS2. *I* raised the BS flag. Is there any PROOF of this? Has anyone done a baseline dyno run with a stock airbox and filter than then put on a CAI with a K&N and done another run to compare numbers? I have never seen this anywhere before. I want someone to put their money where their mouth is. I'm skeptical.

Ok...here's good question to ponder...everyone has an "opinion" on how much of an "improvement" they THINK they have seen by putting on a CAI with a K&N filter, or something similar. Hell, just lastnight in Reno I had a guy SWEAR to me that when he put on his CAI and K&N that his mileage went up to 28-29 hwy on his M6 LS2. *I* raised the BS flag. Is there any PROOF of this? Has anyone done a baseline dyno run with a stock airbox and filter than then put on a CAI with a K&N and done another run to compare numbers? I have never seen this anywhere before. I want someone to put their money where their mouth is. I'm skeptical.

I noted this elsewhere on the forums here, but there have been reported incidents of folks who do nothing more than throw on a "CAI" and lose 25-30 rwhp. When the stock airbox and filter are reinstalled, the power comes back to where it ought to be. Without a good tune, I do not know that this mod is all that it is cracked up to be. Additionally, I do not know the validity of the published performance loses. It could be another Internet warrior over exaggerating. Then again, what do I know?

-K

I've always been skeptical of the CAI mod. A great number of VERY smart engineers put a LOT of time into the design of EVERY aspect of today's engines. If the CAI was such a big deal, the cars woulda come from the factory with one installed. ESPECIALLY if it yeilds such a purported gas mileage increase. Cause we ALL know how big the FEDS are on fuel economy.

Stock airboxes are there to quell induction noise. Take a look at all the ridiculous baffles tacked on to many stock airboxes. Those are guaranteed to create turbulence and slow air intake speed. All it would take would be a simple flow test of a stock airbox vs. the CAI. I don't look at my intake as being a cold air intake, rather a free-er flowing intake. Diminishing the restriction of the stock airbox is always a good thing as long as you are not sucking in overly hot underhood air.

Every stock airbox with stock paper filter I've checked also show a distinct dirty area on the filter that is WELL smaller than the overall size of the filter itself. What that tells me is that the engine is sucking in the air through a much smaller area than say an open cone.

I think we should send this one into Mythbusters and we could get our answer quick. :)

The problem is, a stock airbox is not restrictive enough to rob the engine of power. It only becomes a problem when you start adding say 75 HP at the wheels.

In my old car I gutted the air box and just put in a drop in K&N seemed to work fine and free up the car abit but who knows it was all by seat of the pants

Stock airboxes are there to quell induction noise....
GM engineers have not only stated the above but also that increasing the intake size increases performance. Diagram below shows a 'stock' airbox which appeared on the Holden Special Vehicles (HSV) 'VY SERIES 2 285kw Clubsport'-http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee311/theco_photo/HSVAirbox.jpg

I've always been skeptical of the CAI mod. A great number of VERY smart engineers put a LOT of time into the design of EVERY aspect of today's engines. If the CAI was such a big deal, the cars woulda come from the factory with one installed. ESPECIALLY if it yeilds such a purported gas mileage increase. Cause we ALL know how big the FEDS are on fuel economy.

I ran my GTO for three months with stock air box, I travel the same way almost every day with it. I was getting 18.3 to 18.8 miles per gallon average, after install the K&N FIPK II the average is now 19.1 to 19.3 miles per gallon.:o

I do not notice a difference in power at low rpms but since the install there is a slight increase in how it revs up from 3500rpm and above, my time for roll-ons 60-100mph I believe is faster than the stocker, but very minimal.:(

As for the K&N damaging the engine as you state......yea your right but it is minimal in relation to how long someone drives on that engine. You could expect an air boxed engine to go 200,000 miles average, with the K&N you could expect 185,000 miles or more. Its not that big a deal, I ran K&N on one of my Camaro's for over 10 years and its engine went at 231,000 miles......its not that bad, and who plans on running the same engine for that long anyhow.:cool:

Volant for cold air

love my K&N

K&N works fine if you use it correctly. Mechanic58, you said you remove the whole induction system for racing. Removing the mass air flow sensor will cause an automatic car to shift improperly. Besides, I'd look pretty stupid if I was on the street and someone pulled up to me and I got out to disconnect the snorkel.

Anyway, I never noticed any issue w/ K&N. I love their products and use their oil filters. I want to get a CAI myself for my '04 GTO.

i've written a lot of threads over the years on intakes. the only way to evaluate them and the way never advertised or done by manufacturers and consumers is by IATs under real world conditions and MAPs (manifold absolute pressure) under high RPM WOT runs. ideal IAT is ambient air temp and ideal MAP is whatever the MAP is measured when the engine is static (turned off). other than filtering junk that's the only functions an intake does.

think of MAP as the opposite of vacuum. any restriction of air flow (filter, tubing, bends, tube smoothness, MAF, etc) will cause a decrease in the possible air going into the TB. a supercharger of turbocharger will have MAPs in the intake manifold above static and that's where its power increase is gotten from. the higher the MAP the more oxygen you cram into the cylinder and the more power.

static MAP is usually around 100-101 kpa but that is dependent on the barometric pressure that day and your altitude. on a different tangent but one i found interesting was that the barometric pressure the weather man announces isn't necessarily what it really is where you are unless you happen to be at sea level. the number given is always adjusted to sea level. that way the isobars (lines of pressure) on the weather map mean something other than the altitude the pressure was taken at.

in testing quite a few intakes i noticed that they all suffered from one or both being less than ideal. BTW the best IATs i got were with my thru the fender design and the best MAPs i've gotten were with my OTRCAI (over the radiator CAI).

with a MAFless thru the fender intake i used a 9" cone filter and 4" smooth tubing but the bends, especially the 90* one right before the TB, kept MAPs at high RPM WOT up to 4 kpa and more below ambient MAP. with the MAFless OTRCAI the absolute worst was 1.4 kpa below ambient. i'm finally convinced what the Aussies have know for years and that is OTRCAIs are the best intake, period.

I've always been skeptical of the CAI mod. A great number of VERY smart engineers put a LOT of time into the design of EVERY aspect of today's engines. If the CAI was such a big deal, the cars woulda come from the factory with one installed. ESPECIALLY if it yeilds such a purported gas mileage increase. Cause we ALL know how big the FEDS are on fuel economy.
I am surprised you said that they would have put CAI on the goat if it needed one. These freakin corporations don't do anything they don't have to do even at the risk of letting you die from their unadmitted mistakes.

GM isn't the worst but there is a long list of crap they did the werong way and let it go, then with class action suits, made a recall order.

Caddy CTS and STS are a good example.The rear gears started roaring because the housings were defective. Almost always they'd give out before 15k miles..same with defective fuel systems.

I like the GTO. i have an 04. It is a simple car and fun to drive but they really could have put a tire pressure sensor, oil and battery gauge and a at least a 5 speed auto with overdrive. Gees, this was a comeback car and they left all this off?? Not because they forgot it...they just wanted to make more money on what they knew would be the instant enthusiasm for the car -- now, it will be lucky if it is revived as a Chevy Caprice
but who cares...they pooped that 6.0 G8 GT out there so it's likely the GTO is a memory
with the edicts to build fuel efficient cars and get guzzlers off the road.

..and after seeing the Camaro, I am glad I have something as rare as my perfect 04 stock goat. Sorry, but that car looks like Ford and Chrysler cooked up that cheese dish.

I've always been skeptical of the CAI mod. A great number of VERY smart engineers put a LOT of time into the design of EVERY aspect of today's engines. If the CAI was such a big deal, the cars woulda come from the factory with one installed. ESPECIALLY if it yeilds such a purported gas mileage increase. Cause we ALL know how big the FEDS are on fuel economy.


I want to know what DOES cause better gas mileage in this car? Speaking of BS flag, I see all these guys with thousands in mods to make a stronger car on the straight in the quarter, saying they get anywhere from 17 to 20 city! huh?
I have a pure stock car that runs like silk but gets 14 around town even if I drive it like my grandmother. Somebody tell me how to push those numbers up to a notch above EPA estimates and I will be a happy man..otherwise, I may just have to buy a Hemi Hog truck to justify blowing my fun money on gas. That's way more expensive than Patron shots bruddas.

Thank You!

I used K&N for my 2004 GTO. The system comes with a lifetime K&N washable and reusable air filter, and the intake