I have recently bought a vRS  with a cone filter fitted.

 

It has various mods and is allegedly running about 230 BHP. I would really like to get rid of the cone filter, fit the standard airbox and a free flowing K&N panel filter.

 

 Is there any evidence to suggest that the panel filter will not flow as well as the aftermarket cone filter? I would like to keep the engine bay looking as standard as possible.  I  I am not impressed by the Max Power look.

The K&N panel filter will not be 'Free Flowing'  just a cleanable / treatable filter that is good at repelling H20.

A clean OEM filter is free flowing when clean and filtering and allowing the engine to breath.

My question is then, is the standard set up adequate for 230 bhp?

5 minutes ago, phazed said:

My question is then, is the standard set up adequate for 230 bhp?

The standard hardware works well on my Stage one mapped VRS Octavia. It's making 329bhp without any breathing problems. 

 It is difficult to calculate and can probably only be qualified on the Rolling Road.

 

I fitted a 100 mm intake with massive K&N filter to my 400bhp TVR and found that max power was obtained at about 3/4 throttle,

 The larger intake and filter were irrelevant. 

Hi,

I use a standard airbox that i have de-finned internally and fitted with a standard airfilter (replaced every year).

I do remember reading a few years ago that K&N filters need to be re-oiled when cleaned and that over oiling can cause

oil vapour to coat the MAF sensor and screw the sensing up.

See you have a 4.6 P38 RR very nice. Ive got a 4.2 Supercharged RR, used to have a classic with a 3.9 + 5 speed LT 77 Box (manual).

very nice cars especially in the snow.

Thanks for the info.

 

 

Edited 18 December, 20205 yr by phazed

Nice and tidy car, heres mine :-

Very nice....."

 

obviously i'm useless at posting photos!

18 hours ago, phazed said:

Very nice....."

 

obviously i'm useless at posting photos!

With modern software we don't need to use image tags or bbcodes. Simply pasting the direct URL of the photo will auto embed and display the picture.

The link above doesn't appear to work so it hasn't embeded.
 

I see what you mean, it works! Much simpler than PistonHeads for instance.

Just tried from my iPad and it wouldn’t work direct from photographs but seems to from my iPhone.

Edited 19 December, 20205 yr by phazed

 And so it now works for my iPad.

 

Enough of this!

 

 I have got as far as I can with the underneath of the car at the moment so will look at the air filter scenario tomorrow.