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Can there be two of us in the 1%tile?
Since the mid 60's I have raced on every drag strip in the Great Lakes area. SCCA at Elkheart Lake and flat tracked and road raced in the Southeast.
Air filtration was never a consideration in any racing venue.
Why? Because in drags the motor was torn down between rounds anyway and the others after every race.
On pavement racing there really is no reason to have a fliter unless the rules specify one or to help straighten out the airflow because of airbox problems.
I get a chuckle out of the John Force commercials with their K/N filter patches on. I never built a motor with a huffer on where I installed an air filter.
Here we for the most part are street and road riders and in this what are you interested in? Longivity or power?
If you want power get a GSXR1000 and go mental.
Remember the OEM's place and the aftermarket builders.
Triumph builds a triple now in a very high state of tune out of the box. Without going internal there isn't a whole lot to do to them. Cans and filters won't change the Touque and H/P enough to justify the cost really.
K/N has been out there enough that I'm sure Triumph has tried their filters in development and rejected them as an OEM part that doesn't meet their standards. And Triumph doesn't want their engines coming back to haunt them.
K/N on the other hand is only interested in hawking their filters and Being able to say that their filters flow more air.
The ONLY way they can Flow more air is to have LESS filtration area. I've said it before, there are no magic filters and it's all a compromise. They try to make up for this by rubbing oil on the medium and saying you can clean and recharge saving money. If the air is moving through the oiled medium so are the particulates you are trying to keep out due to less filtration area.
If one has convinced themselves K/N is the way to go fine and more power to you.(pun intended) But don't try to convince me that they are a superior filter. The facts don't support you only media and advertizing hype.
Before you believe the articules written in the mags remember that the editors WILL NOT let anything in that will reflect bady on a heavy advertisor. Too much money is at stake. I have seen personally that this is so. A heavy advertisor can have the biggest turd and the prostitutes at the mag will polish it but all you'll have is a shiny turd.
Don
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