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Old 03-04-08, 11:08 PM
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Re: Air filter advice needed

renny........ANY parts house will have a filter for your car. $6.50 at the most. Fram, ACDelco, PartsMaster, WIX, any of the store brands. K&N is cleverly marketed overpriced .........stuff.

Take a hard look at the intake tract and figure out what to pull in order to get to the filter panel. Be careful of the two spring clips that hold the panel mount to the air box: unless you hang onto the clip when you unsnap it, it hops off and down to who-knows-where. You may have a horseshoe-shaped "resonator" on top of the flex hose to the TB. Unscrew the Torx fastener on top, front, and pull it up and out. Now loosen the three 5/16" nut hose clamps and first remove the flex hose (careful, twist and turn, watch the plastic lines near the TB, pull the TB end first) then unplug the press-snap connector for the MAF and carefully remove it. Don't bend anything in the MAF bore. Remove the filter panel and vacuum out the air box. Using a tad of silicone grease wiped around the hose end bores, put it all back together. 30 minutes the first time, 10 minutes after......the resonator will be a bitch. Search the threads and search function for "butt plug" and do away with the resonator all together. Makes the transmission dipstick easy to access and gives the intake a bit of power moan.

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