CONE OR PANEL

Matt

IM Using a KN Panel Filter at the mo with 3 pipe mod and ive just ordered a KN Cone with Heatsheild - am i gonna see any gians or loses guys ??

JohnnyN

Hello mate. I would suggest losses with the cone. They do sound nice under hard acceleration but i'd be suprised if a heat shield would really make much difference. The 2.2 seems to run extremely hot under the bonnet due to being an aluminium engine. You will need a very good cold air feed. I'm sure the 57i kit is around £97 for the 2.2 and thats a lot of mulla to spurt out for a nice growl.

Here's the latest Rolling Road result from one of my mates over on VxlSCC. He's driving a 2.5 V6 Vectra SRi with a few mods. The interesting thing is the back to back test of cone filter over panel filter.

195 bhp and 205 lbs/ft with cone filter...220.9 bhp and 221 lbs/ft with panel filter. drool.gif

These results came from A.P. Motors in Plymouth at the Marathon RR Day Fundraising event this weekend just gone.

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dodger

I would suggest keeping your panel filter, as johnny said above the engine bay does get hot therefore you won't see much performance gain.

Matt

My Heatshield is massive and ive got really good cold feeds - i have also a cold feed chip on. would that make any difference - does it sound like a V6 with the KN Cone ?

Paul_brown

I've got the pipercross filter on mine.on the road i'ts fine with the filter on but can suffer a little bit in traffic. had it on the roller's on tuesday and it made a little bit of a loss partly because it the bonnet was left down and ticking over while he strapped it down.