MindBomber

^I've never examined a spectre filter in person, but I imagine it would be much worse quality than even a K&N filter. I'd suggest you order a good quality filter right away, to be honest, I would try to find one at a tuning shop to minimize the time your using it.

thefatalepic

Wow, the severity just jumped up a few notches, lol.

The only bad thing is.. I'm on a budget so it's unfortunately going to have to wait a bit, but I'll start looking into other filters and hopefully next week change it out. Whatever damage has probably been done already since when I bought the car it had the Spectre on it already. No intake, just the filter.. Lol.

MindBomber

In that case I'd consider cleaning out your intake, IACV and throttle body once you can afford to upgrade the filter. These are the filters you want:

http://www.weapon-r.com/index.php?ac...at=34&trim=749

thefatalepic

Ignore the man behind the, err, this post.

thefatalepic

Alright, I do want the Secret Weapon intake from Weapon-R so I guess I'm slowly headed in the right direction :P.

I was hoping that there was some inexpensive temporary solution but I guess you get what you pay for. (And it seems that I'm currently running with the inexpensive temporary solution using the no-name w/ Spectre)

MindBomber

The entire intake is pretty expensive, but the filter by itself isn't to bad.

thefatalepic

True, true.. but the entire intake looks so effin sweet though

On the official site it's $255 but at weaponspeed.com it's $221 with free shipping. (weaponspeed says it's 20lbs but I'm assuming they threw in an extra '0' in there.)

weaponspeed

weapon-r official

The pics look very different - but I am assuming both are stock photos and not my particular model.

Too Tall

If you hold a K&N filter up to light, you can see the holes in it. Next time you a few weeks without washing your car, slide your finger across the paint. The dirt on your finger is what goes straight through the holes in the K&N filter.

Hold up your Specter filter to a bright light, if you cannot see light through any holes, you are OK.

Here as easy and cheap fix. Buy a home air conditioner filter. Get the high efficiency kind, sort of like white paper. Cut the filter open and wrap several layers of the home filter over your existing car filter.

I did this as an experiment a long time ago. I was rather surprised how many outer layers the dirt went through until the inner layers stayed clean and white.

Obviously, you need to make sure to not add so many layers the air flow is choked off. I don't remember how many I used.

gearbox

iTrader: (95)

the great thing about the WR SW1 is the design. it outflows a K&N and an open pipe with no filter on it. and it traps dirt better than paper. all thanks to the dual velocity stacks and thick cell foam.

thefatalepic

This is what sold me. I was a bet skeptical at first but I'm assuming they work. Reminds me of airplane wings and how their shape is important to air velocity or something.