i have to secound that. they suck to much dirt particls in with a turbo diesel, gassers are fine but not on a diesel. i run the AFE intake and love it

 

Not a discussion about what brands are best.

 

So in all reality all the advertising about the different models of filters for each brand of truck is nothin but pucky then and any one of them will work.

 

Yup...pretty much.

Just my humble no-mind opinion, though.

I think there are more issues with filtration quality over filtration quantity....keeping all the dirt out of the engine is where the competitive edge(s) lie rather than in actual airflow amounts.

But I don't make any money off selling performance goodies so I probably don't know what the F I'm talking about....

 

Pretty much. The big hoopla is who can flow the most and still filter the best. Wrap the screen off your storm door around your intake pipe and it will probably flow the most. Just won't filter all that great.

Then there are different types of air filters. You have dry filters and oiled filters, oil bath filters and even filters the employ a centrifuge. Then there are also different materials that they make the filters out of.

There are 2 ways of making your filter filter better. One is by making the cloth denser so it traps more. However it usually doesn't flow as well. That is why most of your aftermarket air filters are so much bigger and have a lot more surface area than the stock ones. They can also flow longer without getting plugged up.

Also the shape of the air box plays a part in how much they will flow but I don't think that is what your asking for.

 

I'm interested in any info as long as it not brand names so if you have more to tell about filter media, sizes or anything else you can think I'm here to learn everything I can about filters.

 

if the filter is too thick the pressure drop on the filter can be restrictive, we used to change out the air filters based on pressure drop and saved the district tens of thousands in dollars on filters because they were being tested every month and changed as needed.

knowing how much it would filter is one thing, but how much of a pressure drop and how long it takes for it to collect enough dust and dirt is prolly what your lookin for?

 

i would say as long as you have good flow and it seals tight inside filter housing or around turbo intake it should be good.just my opinion

 

Come on explain more here, your just hittin the tip of the icebergs enough to tease us.

 

well back when work was easy, we changed out filters when the pressure drop was 1.0 inches of water. each unit was different because of the square area of the filters and the cfm that each unit draws. some unit were very inefficient, one example we had was two identical buildings with the same units, one had 5 pleated rows of frames that had 16x25 frames, we put in 20x25 filter inserts because of the more surface area making it more efficient that what it already was. in total the unit had 25 filters arranged in a 5x5 zig zag maximizing the surface area. the initial drop was .1 and it would take a year for it to reach 1.0 a point where the filter has become inefficient and needed to be changed.

another school with the same unit has only 10 filters arranged in a flat face taking up the same front air passage space for the unit. the initial drop with clean filters was .6 and in a month and a half it would reach 1.0

the standard one inch clean house filter has a pressure drop of about .1

but that drop also has to do with the amount of cfm being drawn through the filter, the surface area of the filter media, and how well the filter flows, because the pressure drop is the change in pressure from one side of the filter to the other measured in inches of mercury.


a drop of one inch of water is about .036 psi, not much but its a huge difference