Yep, it looked grayish instead of nice and purplish, so he put on some more oil thinking it was drying up. I thought it was drying up as well, but I guess maybe that it was just dirty. A heavier liquid like that in their gauze material can become a blockage if there is too much in it. The car has too small of a filter for that beast to begin with and the added oil was just too much. It was a hard start and it wouldn't idle too well, I won't even mention the acceleration.[sm=smiley5.gif][sm=smiley36.gif]

 

Believe me, GM MAF's are as good as any! If you have any doubts, check out my '67 Impala SS with '96 LT-1 drivetrain. Bolt ons and programming, no internal mods, no N2O, it weighs 3952 lbs w/no driver and half tank of gas. 13.92/103.8mph!

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Well then it must be too much oil then, because yours has a nice K&N filter on it and seems to be doing just fine. I do know that too much oil can cause problems, as I have mentioned.

On second thought it might just be the oil itself. If yours has a typical K&N set-up, then it might be getting the oil from the filter on it. After checking out the pictures of your Impala SS, I see that the filter attaches directly to the MAF sensor. If it is slightly over oiled it could get into and on the sensor and not necessarily be because of too much oil blocking the airflow.[sm=smiley24.gif]

 

You are right, if you over oil it can foul the MAF. I use very little oil and turn the filter in all directions for an hour or so at each position. I like to let it sit for about 5-6 hours before re-install.

 

Damn, it sounds like it's almost not worth buying the recharge kit!!! Just get another factory filter...for $40-$65!!!!![:@][:@]

 

K&N tend do cause lots of grief. I run one on my 68 El Camino but not my Durango. The oil does NOT stay in the filter, even when properly oiled. I get LOTS of poor idle complaints, most of the ones with K&N have bad build-up in the throttle body and at the IAC motor. They do flow better but most of the engines they are going on don't need that kind of flow anyway. My Elco barely needs it and it run circles around anything Chrysler has build in the 30 years. I agrre that exhaust is a very good upgrade, pulleys wok too. I don't like the PCM "plug-ins". On GM you can actually custom tune your fuel maps/spark curves, but the plugins just dont do much. For airflow, the best thing you can do is get rid of the factory "noise suppresor" somewhere in the air box there is a restriction-get rid of it.

 

The best way to do it is to buy 2 K&N filters and the recharge kit, that way when one needs cleaned and re-oiled you can do a simple swap so that there is no down time. Then you can clean the dirty filter and let it dry properly, then re-oil it and set it aside until you feel the need to swap it out again. And by that time the oil will have wicked in nicely and any excess will have drained off, no more over oiled filter.[sm=smiley2.gif]Thats what I do.[sm=smiley4.gif]

 

I've got a K&N, a recharge kit, and a Mopar "high performance" air filter which looks almost exactly like the K&N...is the K&N oil OK for the Mopar filter as well????

 

Dodgemech brings up some good points about the oil from the K&N. It's important to look at the TB and give it a shot of carb cleaner every now and then. Thanks.

 

Like the Mopar exhaust, which is made by Borla, I would bet money that K&N makes their performance air filters.[sm=smiley2.gif]