AFE Filters

[Road Rage]

Although I do not believe cotton gauze filters are as effective overall as a quality oiled paper, they do flow well. So I use them on cars where performance is the overall objective, and OCI's and oil filtration are often and excellent, respectively. I use one in the excellent factory airbox in my Honda S2000 - the AFE even had the little "wiener" that aligns/stabilizes the filter in the airbox - a nice design feature of the OE design - but in fairness, also provided by K&N.

I liked the quality and construction details of AFE filters - they are not cheap, but compared to the K&N's I have examined, they are much better made, make better seals, and the filter medium and number of pleats superior. IMO, they look tough too.

Anyway, something to consider as an alternative to the K&N onslaught.

www.afefilters.com

 

[Drew99GT]

Did you feel any performance gain with an AFE in your S2000?

According to the filter test conducted by Spicer from the boards, the AFE was actually one of the best filters at actually filtering, even better than Wix I think.

 

[goodvibes]

AFE makes a couple different filters. I think the one RR is referring to is like a K&N with one layer thats smaller pored and won't filter as well as paper but maybe better than K&N. They also make a 7 layer multi gauge filter that cleans extremely well but flows similar to paper. A big one of these on the end of a CAI should both flow and filter well.

 

[GarrettSocling]

There is some speculation that AFE makes TRD filters:

http://9thgencorolla.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5168