Cold Air intake ?? Volant or K&N . ???????????????

[Elpescador100]

Trying to decide on eithe of the two.. Im familiar with K&N and used themm in the past.. Volant seems to be on the up and up.

K&N 57-3013-2 Performance Intake Kit

or

Volant 15957 Cool Air Intake Kit

 

[SwampHound]

I myself have the K&N system and like it on my 5.7, but it has some quirks. Can't say I have ever used Volant.

 

[SunlitComet]

Stick with the k&n. You can actually see a dyno sheet on it when it was tested with a 5.0 engine. To this day I have yet to see the volant claim anything other then having a nice box to encase the filter in. I never see any actual performance claims to back it up. However if you just want a better looking intake then by all means go with the volant. Certainly better looking then the bulky stock unit.

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I myself have the K&N system and like it on my 5.7, but it has some quirks. Can't say I have ever used Volant. You may wanna give this a look: http://www.tahoeyukonforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41254

I would disregard that article as it does not represent the k&n series used in the obs. only one of two used in newer model vehicles and even then not the better of the two k&n setups The intake tube design and material makes a difference. Besides different engine designs.

 

[99_Yukon]

I have used both as well and I prefer the volant which I have installed now. I really like the filter and not having to clean it. Sounds a little quieter than the k&n and I haven't noticed any different performance differences. Looks much cleaner under the hood in my opinion.

 

[Elpescador100]

I have used both as well and I prefer the volant which I have installed now. I really like the filter and not having to clean it. Sounds a little quieter than the k&n and I haven't noticed any different performance differences. Looks much cleaner under the hood in my opinion.

Hu? Not having to clean it? You mean to tell me the filter never gets dirty?

 

[1999hoe]

I love my kn set up the engine has a nice roar to it and ive definately felt a difference since putting it on cleaning and maintainance is key with all intakes

 

[Elpescador100]

K&N has been ordered.

 

[99_Yukon]

Hu? Not having to clean it? You mean to tell me the filter never gets dirty?

Sorry, by clean I meant not oiling it.

 

[SunlitComet]

oil it.

 

[saif najd]

Nice talk, ok my experience with aFe and K&N (K dert in)

The experience was done on another truck but I have to say the K&N faild to keep ok to keep it short I found that MAFs become more dirty than the once used aFe filters

But..

I would use the K&N for the SOUND

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[SunlitComet]

sounds like over oiling to me.

 

[zieglerj-pdm-specialist]

They do

sounds like over oiling to me.

after cleaning the filter and either letting air dry or blow dry you do need to as small likes of oil in between the lines to help catch dirt. I have K&N in all three of my vehicles and seen performance increase in all. The cold air intake on my 1997 Bonneville is a little louder but if you hold your hand up to the intake you can sure feel the air intake sucking the extra air in. People think I have a bearing out and I like telling the, its my K&N intake. I saw the largest jump in performance in that one. I went from 25MPG to nearly 30MPG but I also fine tuned my engine for a lower octane ethanol free gas. Ethanol in regular engines does damage and corrosion even if it says 89 octane and the other says 87, 87 is for engine knock and if you don't have that I would defiantly not put ethanol fuel in it.