Air Cleaners

[Sodripper]

How often do you clean them?? How does a dirty one affect the tune?? What is considered dirty??

 

[BOUTCH]

If I ride on pavement with no or little dust around...I clean it every few tanks, but if I offroad with it, I clean it after each use...and even clean it between 2 runs if really dirty>

http://www.articlesfactory.com/articles/hobbies/why-nitro-rc-car-needs-clean-and-fresh-air.html

 

[BIRDMAN]

many factors:
where r u racing? what are you racing? are you bashing? driving on pavement?
if off road and very dusty maybe each run? get a extra filter to use while you clean one and let it dry. if on pavement maybe every few runs. again it all depends on running conditions. You can also use a outer saver pre-filter too.

this is the filter that I use: a motorsaver filter.

www.motorsaver.com

if your r/c is not listed send them a email to see what is the best suited filter!

cheers

 

[Childresshunt]

Motor savers are awesome you can run on a single cleaning for like half a gallon depending on what your running on

 

[Sodripper]

not racing just bashing. I run a 2.5 and 3.3 T-Maxx. I run on blacktop and dirt. Not having an issue just thought I would start a thread on a commonly overlooked part. Just trying to pick everyones brain and see what everyone else is doing.

 

[avelciario]

For me air filters are the most important in nitro world compared fuel brands, nitro content and oil content of fuel, clutch , gears etc... the life span of nitro engine depends mostly on airfilters. Dust can kill your engine in a few seconds. That's why I always had more extra set of airfilters everytime I'm bashing or in track.

 

[hulkmaxx]

The motor saver brand air filter with a pre filter on it has always served me best. And you should always clean your filter after every session. When I raced on clay back in the day. I kept several filter cleaned and ready to go. I switched them out several times while out on the track.

 

[Phins Fan]

Every bash session. I always replace when done so when I take it out again its got a fresh 1 already on it. And I always have 2 on reserve that are clean as well. Theres been numerous times where I will lose 1 when it rolls over. Having extras is always a good idea. Especially seeing as how cheap they really are.

 

[hamz9561]

Depending on conditions (really dusty here) I tend to clean my filters after every session like Phins. More often if the outer filter appears dusty during a fuel stop.

 

[moe7404]

well i just used a stock traxxas 3.3 filter on my dodge dakota 3.9 V6 for the crankcase breather. i put a after market truck air filter on the dakota engine. and it didnt have a place for the dakota crankcase air line.

 

[sur3fir3]

When I ran nitro I cleaned after every session, and if its dusty, sometimes half way through a session I would put a clean one on. I would rather take the extra 5 minutes it takes to clean them, than take any chances.

 

[Alexander_0_1]

I've recently started using the motor saver sock over my motor saver filter just for that lil extra. I was going to pull/stretch an outer foam filer over the outside of the savage motor saver filters then use the mesh sock also, but I couldn't find the right size....then there was the breath ability of the whole thing once I was done, then I forgot about it till I read this thread

 

[maddmike]

I change my filters every 4 tanks and that's just bashing