jim beam <nospam@example.net> wrote in
news:bdmdnXlXFOsuIGveRVn-hg@speakeasy.net:

>
> i think you mean amf, not maf. amf is air-mass flow. honda uses map,
> a manifold air pressure sensor and measures differential between that
> and another sensor in the passenger compartment. a lousy filter will
> make no difference until the manifold sensor hole gets clogged, but
> the engine will be dead long before that occurs.
>

No, I mean MAF, you know heated platinum wire and all? Maybe you're
thinking about the air flow meters they used on Miata's and some other
cars. I know honda's are speed/density. MAF sensors are destroyed if you
get oil on them. Since K&N's require oil, people were/are damaging MAF
sensors when they installed the K&N's.

Read the article, interesting enough. Unless I missed it they didn't
describe how they prepped the K&N. I'm willing to believe though that the
K&N doesn't filter as well as the paper element. So, if I only get 80K on
the motor instead of 120k, well that's the cost I guess. Won't be my car
(or that motor) at that point so, I'll let the next guy worry about it.