QUOTE(SirAndy @ Aug 20 2006, 08:14 PM)

QUOTE(tracks914 @ Aug 20 2006, 06:37 PM)

I hated when after cornering hard I would drip oil onto my headers. I wanted mine to look stock so I gutted the oil bath part, welded it up and put in a paper element.
I posted pictures of it here last year.
huh? how would oil get from your air-filter to your headers anyways? that sounds pretty impossible ...
i ran the stock oilbath filter for years, including a few hard driven AX, never had a single drop coming out of it.
now, if you ask me about that one time i stepped on it while it was on the garage floor, that's a whole different story ...
bottomline, the oilbath filter works far better than any paper element and way better than any of the "performance" filters.
all they do is let more dust into the engine. which can't be good in the long run ...

Andy
You know, I'm going to try using a HEPA vacuum filter that fits my RIGID shop vac. I tell you, my shop sits right next to a guy with 4 horses, and he loves to run them around stirring up all kinds of the finest damned dust you never wanted to know, and it sneaks its way into my building.
This stuff makes wind blown sand or drywall dust look like boulders, no kidding, it's that bad. Yet I can take my shop vac to the floor and use it till it loses suction and (building up 3/16" of this crap in the process) then take the filter out and the insides of the filter look like new! There is not a trace of any particle of dust in the exhaust port. Nothing whatsoever. I take the filter to the dumpster, beat it against the sides stirring up a toxic cloud, and it's good to go for another try... Even after doing this it looks significantly better than any air cleaner I've seen after 5000 miles.
I'll have to do some tests to see how they flow, but I have a feeling it's going to be fine. Heck, even if I have to put a few in parallel to get it to flow, I'll probably do that!