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Originally Posted by Thatmarkguy
Be careful with oiled filters, sometimes they come over-oiled from the factory and after cleaning and reoiling the residual oil will come off and attach itself onto the mass airflow sensor. The sensor then has to be removed and cleaned with non-chlorinated brake cleaner. This had been an issue on over at the Corvette Forum. The fix was to throw out the oiled gauze filter and go back to the factory paper unit - testing showed if held more dirt before clogging and flowed almost as well as the K&N filter while trapping more dirt.
On the C6 Corvette Z06's the K&N filter claimed a 27 horsepower gain - which was quickly lost when the computer readjusted for the additional airflow the horsepower gains were lost.
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I agree with the over oiling. I have heard of different vehicles having that problem. I make sure not to over oil mine when I clean it.