Hello, John Talley here with partzilla.com.
You know we're always telling you it's important to keep your air filter clean.
Well today we're going to find out just what a difference it can make.
We going to have a little fun with our dyno.
First, we're going to do a run with a clean air filter.
Then we're going to do one with a dirty air filter.
And we're going to see if cleaning your filter or replacing it really makes that big of a
difference.
So let me go get a couple of tools, get to that air filter housing, and we'll see what
a difference it does make.
Alright guys, we've got the dirty filter installed, and what we're going to do is we're going
to do a fourth gear pull and I believe I've got it set at smoothing level five, just the
SAE standard.
So I've already got the machine heated up around 205, 210 degrees, so that is its normal
operating temperature.
So, go ahead and get these on and let's do a run.
Alright, so that's 99.61.
Well I know this machine should make at least 100 horsepower, so I'm going to bet that that's
going to be off.
Let's do a couple of more runs, log those, and then we'll go to the clean one.
Alright guys, out of the four runs, let's look at one at-- that's 93, so something must
have been wrong there.
But we've got a 97.6, a 98.3, a 99.61.
So let's average that out to you know, 98, 98 and a half.
So, let's go to the clean and see what it can do.
Alright, we've got our new filter in.
We should still be up to operating temperature.
Yeah, close enough.
Let's do a couple of runs with the new filter and see how it does.
Alright guys, that was four runs with the clean filter.
Looks like we had 104 even, 104.21, 104.26, 104.47.
So a fair amount of difference there in between the clean and the dirty.
Alright guys, so what did we learn here?
This four runs up top? that was the dirty filter.
The ones down at the bottom, that was with the clean filter.
So you're looking at almost a five horsepower difference between the two I'd say on average.
So that's something you definitely need to keep a handle on so to speak.
You're giving away horsepower if you don't have a clean filter in your machine.
Well, if you need the air filter for your machine, come see us at partzilla.com and
we can get you taken care of.
If you have any questions or comments just leave them in the section below and I'll do
my best to answer them.
And until next time we just want to say thanks for watching.