Performance air filters! Yes or not worth it?

When my filter clean all I hear is vacuum blowing

 

Back in the days before computer connected air metering devices(MAF/etc), K&N may have been OK. I used them on mid-70s Japanese hot-rod motorcycles(Z-1). They were OK.
Today I use plain paper OEM filters.

 

OEM paper is the best option, hands down.

 

You mean fram filters

 

Z1 was a bad ass bike for its time, I had a 73.

 

I run AFE dry filter.
I like that I can just wash it. If I feel like looking at it and it's dirty? Wash it. Idk just sounds easy haha

 

I've been using K&N products since 1981 and will continue to use them

 

Where you folks getting your OEM paper filters?

Any bulk discounts like w the oil filters?

 

I use these, no complaints.

$17 TYC Cabin Air Filter Compatible with 2006-2020 Toyota Tacoma

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VKTUJQ/ref=pe_1843280_166706240_em_1p_0_ti

 

I won’t ever knock anyone using whatever filter they want on their vehicle. Maybe someone has a good reason to use a special filter.
Air filters are so important in keeping the engine protected that I’ll only use the best paper filter available in my vehicles.

 

Mine is a '75 - Blue - Still have it, but it needs work. Yeah - back then the Kawa Z-1 was a rocket ship

 

I have a friend that built a career out of rebuilding carburetors. He's meticulous and has done several for Jay Leno, Nicolas Cage, and thousands of professional race drivers before fuel injection became the norm. He now specializes in authentic classic car carburetor restorations. He has all of the special plating processes in his garage. You wouldn't believe all of the crazy odd carburetors made in the distant past, including many odd multi carburetor set ups. He hates Fram paper air filters and claims they are the worst air filter ever made.

 

OEM Toyota. I'll gladly give up some perceived horsepower gains for clean air going into my engine.

But that's just my opinion for me and my Tacoma.

 

I used to use high flow air filters, but to me all they really did was make my engine sound noisier from sucking air. Went back to stock filters and have no problems and it is quieter.

 

NO

 

That’s good to know. Thank you for the tip!

 

I know the 2.7l OEM paper filter is still Made in the Good Ole USA and exceptional quality compared to the Chicom EBAY equvilents

 

I see a pattern emerging hear " Don't fix what ain't broke" is the general consensus, Just leave the F ing thing alone.

 

Lack of progress is never a good thing. If humans stuck to that ideology we wouldn't have Tacomas.