sgould

Had the new Blitz Induction Kit fitted Saturday.

F*ck me. Does it make a difference or what!
It feels so much more responsive, better than the rubbish K&N I had on my old car.

And for the noise. K&N and other cotton filters make a deep gown (horrible on a Scooby), PiperCross and other foam filters make no or little noise (and ofcourse RamAir have a tendancy to catch fire - I know of 4 locally), but this Blitz mesh filter is amazing.

It makes the standard dump valve so loud, and while accelerating makes the most wounderful wistle sound from the turbo.

Drove past a petrol station and every person on the forcount turned and looked.

Well worth the £205.

If you are in Bournemouth and hear a strange sounding Scooby, then you will understand how nice it is.

Dave T-S

Good to hear it M8 - have you got a SS downpipe - if not, sounds like that would complement this nicely!!

Rikki23

ooooooh, you have me very interested now.

Can I ask where you got it from and what the product is called exactly (so I get the same one!)? Will it fit a 95 WRX do you know?

Thank you
Rikki

MorayMackenzie

K+N induction kit retails at about 65 inclusive, and gives arguably better filtration and similar improvements in response/breathing... sounds good too.

sgould

It is the Blitz Stainless Steel Filter and there are only 3 sizes available plus adaptors to fit almost all Japanese cars.
I had it fitted at Regal Autosport in Southampton (www.regal-auto.co.uk), Vauxhal and Subaru specialists.

It is brand new and from reviews is the best filter for Jap cars (and ofcourse its a Blitz).
Its reviewed in the months Max Power! along with almost every other filter.

I intend to get a Blitz bax box and a HK downpipe, but will cost around £800.

Blow Dog

If you like the Blitz, you may as well have no filtration at all, as the Blitz offers very little protection at all, which is why you have felt a difference. Beware of the **** it will now let in....bugs, oil, grit, dirt etc.

Best compromise is the HKS or similar filter system where the air flow is improved whilst still providing a sensible protective mesh system.

Cem

sunilp

rearrange the following words,

**** on, sorry to, bonfire, your

Take Cems comments very seriously indeed Mr Gould!

howardb

On, sorry your bonfire **** to??

Bad bonfire night Sunil?

sgould

There was a lot of scare stories about the blitz - most not true, like everything else in this world.

Foam filters are meant to catch fire (well RamAir seems to), but probably a load of bo11ocks.

If a bug or grit can get through the blitz filter, then well done. I have seen them tested, thats why I got one. Having water poured on it didn't do much.

If I wanted to be 99% safe I would have stayed with the standard filter.

HUNTY

I have a Blitz on my Evo VI ME and I think it's great.

Cheers.

p.s. Blowdog, I thought you were going to post the pic's I sent you of my car avec the white 18in wheels?

Hunty.

Leigh

I've had a Blitz filter on my WRX for over a year & 11k miles, and I've had no problems at all!
Having taken the filter off for a look, it's still as clean as when new inside.
Excellent bit of kit.

Leigh

Blow Dog

Hunty,

You never gave me the go ahead. Its going up now.

Cem

sunilp

Its not inside the filter or immediate air box piping where the muck accumulates......try further down near the turbo!!!!.

You have been warned, good luck and dont be so cynical, some of us have "been there, done that and refused the t-shirt"

Pete Croney was right all along!

Sunil

HUNTY

Sunil & Cem,

Obviously I am very concerned, I bought one mainly due to the website and all the info claiming to be the best selling filter in Japan etc.
It is a quality piece of kit, so why continue to make it and market it if it is potentially dangerous?
If it does let dirt/grime in, what damage can this do to your engine, as I am not very mechanical?

p.s. if Pete croney is always right, how come he told me Brembo's were better then AP's?

Kevin.

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mavrick

The problems some people are having with air flow meter's are due to contamination of the sensor element in the air flow meter body.
The hot film which measures air flow by using resistance measurement becomes damaged in some of the following ways -
Dust sticking on the film,
Scratching of the film surface,
Becoming holed,
The film being dislodged from it's frame.
Its quite normal for some oil residue to be found in the pipe work related to the intercooler.

sunilp

Well i am not very mechanical either, but an engine needs (clean) air as part of the combustion cycle. Thats why they put a filter in place. Now, if the filter is not efficient then muck gets in, around all the pipework, into the turbo and knackers it.....simple as it can be really!

Its not really an issue of the Blitz damaging the MAF but just not being able to filter well enough for the dusty climate we have here in the UK!

I never said Pete was ALWAYS right, did i?

sgould

Well Im confused.
Turbos work on exhaust fumes, so why would the filter make a difference to that???

It is more likely that dirt would get into your injectors and f*ck them up.

Mesh filters like the Blitz are so fine anyway that it is vitually impossible for girt to get through it.

chiark

Turbos are powered by exhaust fumes - this power goes into pressurising the charge that's delivered to the engine (ie pressurises the air going into the engine)

See the SIDC faq for a good description of how a turbo works.

I must admit to having been put off the air filter idea by quite a few MAF failures on IWOC...

S

sgould,

the turbo utilises the exhaust gases to rotate a turbine that compresses the air intake before it enters the intercooler. The blades of the turbine could be damaged by contamination within the inducted air.

<B>How a turbocharged engine works</B>



As for it being more likely to get in the injectors?????

Injectors are part of the fuel system and dirty air would have no effect on the injectors.

thanks

S



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sunilp

Thankyou S for clarifying that.

As for Mr Gould, well if you think the mesh is so fine, then you just carry right on.........

Laters

barge

I was looking at the Blitz route, nice and shiney etc, then someone on here said the BLITZ is a life time filter, so that made me think about ok now, what is a year, 18 months will it still be as good, I have got the HKS green mushroom thing, not as good looking, sounds OK, but then the Dump Valve & exhaust drown most things out anyway.

Stef

sgould.
From your comments regarding the K&N and Pipercross induction kits it would appear you've been misled. The K&N doesn't make a deep noise at all and sounds fantastic on every Scoob I've ever heard it on, and the Pipercross is anything but quiet!
A recent test in Japan but the Blitz behind both cotton and foam filters in terms of filtering ability which after all, is what they're there for, no?
Still, what matters is that you're happy.

Stef.

sgould

Thats what reading Max Power over the last few issues has done to me.

In the last issue, they mentioned about the noises. Obviously it is a load of bollocks - just like the mag itself!!!

Well I will give the filter a year, until my next main service, and then take it from there. By then I should have the alloys, exhaust, dump valve..... ofcourse asking what other people have done and think - first.

Ideas:
Alloys - 17" OZ Superturismo's in gold
Dump Valve - Blitz Super
Exhaust - not sure, maybe a Magnex or Scooby Sport.

Daryl

I've just ordered a Blitz filter and am now worried that I've made an expensive mistake! But is there a bit of a contradiction here?......Cem says you may as well have no filter because it lets everything through, while Stef says that a recent test found that it doesn't filter as well as cotton or foam.
Can anyone state categorically that they have had problems caused by fitting the Blitz and, if so, what exactly were they?

Thanks

Daryl

sunilp

Mr Gould, you say that you read all about the noises in Max Power but then state you had the K&N on you old car before?.......confused?????.........

Daryl,
It is NOT a contradiction, they are saying the SAME thing, i.e. that its ability to filter out dust is very poor!, akin to having no filter in place to catch the dust or having it in place but it being inferior in filtration ability to cotton or foam.

Sunil

sgould

I had a K&N on my Rover 200. It was f*cking loud and made a very deep noise. After reading Max Power I thought it would sound the same noise on all cars.

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Blow Dog

Thank you Sunil

Cem

SimonM

I have had a Blitz filter fitted for about 6 months now, and have just started getiing problems with my car running rich. I now beleive the problem to be due to a knackered air flow meter... a problem that has been reported many time by Blitz owners!

After the problem is fixed, I will be changing to either a PiperX or K&N.

SimonM

Leigh

Maybe the reason I've had no problems with a Blitz filter is that my air flow meter is the old type (not hot film). - Then again, I could be talking rubbish... wouldn't be the first time.

I'm a bit concerned now that I might get probs in the long run. Should I change it? If so, what to, any recommendations?

Leigh

logiclee

So if the Blitz is just Mesh it will not filter dust am I right?

Having seen what sort of damage poorly filtered air does to industrial compressors and engines I don't think I'll be fitting a Blitz.

Dust in high flow speed air or in fast moving machinery ie Turbos acts as a grinding agent and causes accelerated wear.

It may be the biggest selling filter in Japan, but these guys do run high boost and don't seem to concerned about engine longevity.

Lee