K&N Filter in a pointy?

Guys and girls,

I'm gonna service my bike next month - is a K&N air filter worth the money? Is it as much of an improvement as the manufacturer leads you to believe?

Cheers, Cris.

[maviczap]

From everything I've read on here save your money

Think the Pipercross & BMC filters are better, but I can't testify to this as I've got a curvy

But mines got a BMC filter

[Bibio]

if you plan on keeping the bike for a loooong time than yes they are worth the money. don't think of it as a bhp gain think of it as not having to buy a new filter ever again.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/K-N-Elemen...item19c4db88e0

best price i could find.

[MJC-DEV]

Personally I prefer the extra filtration of the original over a small cost saving.

The road replacement K&N, BMC etc dont flow that much more than the std one as the std one flows well as it is. The main benefit of the K&N is that it is cleanable.

Its only when you go to race spec filters on the injected SV that you see a difference but this generally is only with airbox mods and fueling changes.

Cheers chaps. As the bike is being sold this summer (very sadly due to work), I'll just get a standard replacement then. If it made much of a difference I'd have bought a pro replacement.

Thanks.

Planning on having my ecu remapped soon anyway and will have the sv1000 snorkel on, so is the race filter a better choice then? Are they cleanable too?

For road use just use the road replacement OEM or road replacement K&N/BMC. Proper race filters will let in too much dirt for no more appreciable gain.

Originally Posted by SV650Racer

For road use just use the road replacement OEM or road replacement K&N/BMC. Proper race filters will let in too much dirt for no more appreciable gain.

Cool. Thanks again.