Ebay BMC replica

[charles_vtr]

Would love a BMC CDA air filter but cant afford the price of one, found this on ebay would it be a good affordable version? Of course I would obviously through the stupid superturbo charger fan straight in the bin or at some chav.

[charles_vtr]

Forgot the link...
http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=301003979748

[charles_vtr]

Anyone know?

[jonKKL]

I had one was good for the price comes apart to clean etc makes a decent sound considering it's enclosed m8.

[josh11490]

I may have something like this for sale in the week on a car I'm getting, I've not looked at it properly but it looks similar to the one in the link.

[m4tt274]

BMCs don't make any induction noise really, those do!

I had one once on a saxo i bought, it sounded great tbh, nothing wrong with it.
Inside it is the same crummy little cone filter as the race land filters etc.

Perfect for a saxo imo, do away with the crappy fan thing though.

[charles_vtr]

Nice one thanks guys, and josh pm me when you find out otherwise ill get this one. And yeah like I said ill give the fan to one of my chavy mates ;)

[Tom5190]

Same again really mate there fine, I used one on mine for a while (not sure what the weird fan is though it didn't have that!) Made 151hp with cams so isn't really restrictive in anyway.

[Gandi699]

make sure the filter is oiled though, the one bought and subsequently binned didnt have any oil on the filter so it wasnt going to be filtering much crap out!

[charles_vtr]

Sounds like ive struck gold then with this find, is it really carbon fibre though like it says? :') thanks for the input guys!

[Jack_Norris]

Thought it would cost a lot more if it was real carbon, if it is that a bargain :y:

[Gandi699]

It's plastic carbon effect. The filters in these are cheap as is the whole package really but it'd do


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[DanTvts]

As said before, they're okay in terms of looking better and performance wise they arent very restrictive which is obviously good.
The thing with the cheap filters is that the actual filtration properties probably arent that great.

[charles_vtr]

Is it a good idea to give a coat of oil to the filter then as said above to help it catch particles? Surely its not too bad anyway at filtering

[Gandi699]

Yes go pick up a light oil designed for the job, k and n do one and piper cross. The filter medium such as gauze or foam is only there to hold the oil which is keeping small particles out of the engine


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[French4ever]

I've seen quite a few BMC sell quite cheap recently seem to be selling for way cheaper than they used to.
At one point seemed to be selling for around 100 but now I've seen them go around 50 - 80.

[French4ever]

Used ones of course lol

[charles_vtr]

Used ones of course lol

I haven't been able to find one, but if theyre quite and the ebay ones make a bit of noise I would rather the ebay one. Im not building a performance track saxo just something to my own taste :)

[French4ever]

If it's the noise your after and not performance you might be better of with an open filter not an enclosed one.

[charles_vtr]

If it's the noise your after and not performance you might be better of with an open filter not an enclosed one.

Yeah I thought that, but I prefer the look of an enclosed otherwise unless it can look a bit of a halfords job ;) unless done right of course

[French4ever]

Ye true also there's the option of having a decent panel filter.