Tom N
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Registered: 4th Jun 03
Location: Bradford/Sheff (Uni) Drives: Golf GTI
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hi, my valver goes in this week and im thinkin of getting a new induction kit as i have a cotton gauze one and have recently heard bad things of them.
what does everyone recommend?
i was thinking piperx?
thanks
tom
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Joff
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Sealed unit foam filter.
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LukeGSi
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Registered: 9th Dec 03
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Such as?
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Joff
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I have no idea. 
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LukeGSi
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broster
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k&n all the way, or any other cheap one off ebay.
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Tom N
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so a sealed foam one is what? piperx viper?
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TOMAS
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Registered: 7th Aug 02
Location: Nottinghamshire
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Im running a Green filter on my valver and all seems good... Its a pretty cheap cotton gause one but seems fine. TBH I cant see the point in spending £70+ on these 'amazing' 5bhp + filters. I stuck a Pipercross on my 1.2 16V engine and it did nowt but cause flat spots and make a noise.
[Edited on 10-11-2004 by TOMAS]
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topshot_2k
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Registered: 1st Dec 03
Location: Northampton Drives: Pug GTi-6
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^^^exactly what happened to me with piperx filter i got off mate so swapped for a K&N and i have no probs (1.6tho)
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ffls
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The restriction of the original airbox is in the top pipe
that's the reason you should fit a cone filter inside the original airbox and then run some additional 80mm pipe to the airbox!
or buy a cheap sealed unit for 35£ from E-Bay, because it improve the power slightly over 5500 rpm till 7200 rpm
I have an AP22 from race technology so I can prove what I'm saying
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broster
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MTech supply Green cotton-gauze filters with their conversion kits, but they're just rubber neck universal filters so really are at the worst end of all induction kits.
You'd be better off buying some nasty Max Power filter off ebay - basically anything with a nice fully-radiused inlet on the base to get airflow smoothly into your inlet manifold.
The rubber necks will be full of right-angles.
Wank.
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