Hi, Guest
02-03-2007, 04:23 AM
Personally, and this is partly based on past experience and partly with the general learned knowledge of how sponges work:
Both intakes end up in the same place in the front of the car, where the "fresh air" snorkle resides. The Cossie intake is a K+N surgical cotton filter. While I understand and appreciate your brother's apprehension from his own experience with K+N filters, they're not bad at all in my experience. I inspected the interior of my SRI tube on regular intervals and I never witnessed an accumulation of ultra-fine dirt and dust. Also, the MAF was always in pristine condition.
The FocusSport, while it's a fine intake I'm sure, is a foam sponge filter (albeit one with three different densities) and to have it sitting that low down in an emergency submersion situation scares me. I would believe that the cotton filter would offer a tad more protection and a bit less easy transfer of an instant's water contact vs. that of the FocusSport filter. Seeing as I don't have one of each (nor a disposable Duratec to perform the test with... potentially requiring 2 engines or a rebuild!), we'll never know.
In short, I'm getting the Cosworth intake this spring. Randy sells some nice stuff at FocusSport, and I'll be tapping him to nicely fine-tune my Duratec later on this spring with an X-Cal2.
Also, FWIW... I won't be removing the CAI during the winter months. There's a decent amount of wrench time required for the removal and re-addiiton of the stock intake, and our winters here are a lot colder / drier with more snow overall than out your way.
Both intakes end up in the same place in the front of the car, where the "fresh air" snorkle resides. The Cossie intake is a K+N surgical cotton filter. While I understand and appreciate your brother's apprehension from his own experience with K+N filters, they're not bad at all in my experience. I inspected the interior of my SRI tube on regular intervals and I never witnessed an accumulation of ultra-fine dirt and dust. Also, the MAF was always in pristine condition.
The FocusSport, while it's a fine intake I'm sure, is a foam sponge filter (albeit one with three different densities) and to have it sitting that low down in an emergency submersion situation scares me. I would believe that the cotton filter would offer a tad more protection and a bit less easy transfer of an instant's water contact vs. that of the FocusSport filter. Seeing as I don't have one of each (nor a disposable Duratec to perform the test with... potentially requiring 2 engines or a rebuild!), we'll never know.
In short, I'm getting the Cosworth intake this spring. Randy sells some nice stuff at FocusSport, and I'll be tapping him to nicely fine-tune my Duratec later on this spring with an X-Cal2.
Also, FWIW... I won't be removing the CAI during the winter months. There's a decent amount of wrench time required for the removal and re-addiiton of the stock intake, and our winters here are a lot colder / drier with more snow overall than out your way.
Daily driver 1: 2007 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sport "S"
33" BFG Mud-Terrain KM2s, lots of Rough Country gear - bumper, 2.5" lift, swaybar disconnects, Superwinch 10,000lb winch, Detroit Locker in rear D44 axle, custom exhaust, K+N filtercharger, Superchips-tuned.
Daily driver 2: 2006 Subaru Legacy GT
COBB Stage 1+ package - AccessPort tuner, COBB intake and airbox. Stage 2 coming shortly - COBB 3" AT stainless DP and race cat, custom 3" Magnaflow-based exhaust and Stage 2 COBB tune.
33" BFG Mud-Terrain KM2s, lots of Rough Country gear - bumper, 2.5" lift, swaybar disconnects, Superwinch 10,000lb winch, Detroit Locker in rear D44 axle, custom exhaust, K+N filtercharger, Superchips-tuned.
Daily driver 2: 2006 Subaru Legacy GT
COBB Stage 1+ package - AccessPort tuner, COBB intake and airbox. Stage 2 coming shortly - COBB 3" AT stainless DP and race cat, custom 3" Magnaflow-based exhaust and Stage 2 COBB tune.