"Oiled" Filters? What do you think?

[88Racing]

My turn!

Nope don't like them unless exclusively ran at race tracks that are asphalt/concrete.
Pros:
Great in no to very little dust conditions.
The person doing the cleaning and oiling knows what they are doing.
Great on carburated race vehicles.

Cons:
Dusty dirty conditions plug them up quicker even with foam prebreather.
Over oiled the oil goes everywhere and collects and plugs with even more particles.
Under oiled more dirt into the engine.
To much hype!
Need to be fussy with their maintenance.
Around wet conditions rain sock should be used.

Stick with the paper or the "washable" dry type gauze. Dry types are cheaper and last just as long.

Lars

[MyMuddyTruck]

Well here are my 2 cents. I lived in Casa Grande, AZ. for a while. If you haven't lived there, you probably have seen it on the news where the whole town gets covered buy a dust storm. Well with winds well over 50mph blowing dust everywhere, it even gets in your house leaving the inside dusted everywhere. Now on my truck, I have a Volant cai. With all those dust storms, it gets pretty gunked up realy quick. I had thought about going back to the stock intake while I was living there. But during one of the times that I was cleaning the filter, I decided to put in a new paper filter in my wifes Honda Accord. When I looked down inside the intake tube, I saw a fine layer of dust inside the tube. There was no dust inside the intake tube of my Volant. After that, I replaced the filter on my wifes car with an oiled filter and never saw dust in there again. Granted, it was a pain cleaning them more often than most people have to but in those contitions it was worth it. Now most people don't live in conditions like that so they can get away with using paper filters. But thats just my thoughts on that.

[Jackpine]

That's a good, anecdotal bit of information, MyMuddy! Almost makes me want to run right out and buy an oily filter since it's pretty darned dusty where I live, in Tucson, too. Thanks for the input.

So far, you seem to be the only one strongly in favor of them, but I like it that you based your opinion on observed behavior, rather than "gut feel" or advertising.

- Jack

[ChuckD]

I actually have oiled filters on all my vehicles. Its just that the drop ins don't seal like a cone filter with a clamp, on mine.

[SDRANGER619]

I have a Series 77 CAI on my truck. I think the rule of thumb is to train yourself on how much oil is proper to use during a reoiling process.