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Pod Filters Are Now A Defect Item

rossco_01

By rossco_01,
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hr32gts

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As a mechanic I see there point on carburettored cars ... as they do tend to get fuel saturation over time due to being directly above the carby ...

On a fuel injected car however I do not see this as a problem as the fuel is injected at the manifold and not directly under the airfilter like on a carburettored car and if they missfire it doesn't fill the intake with fuel mixture it only enters a metered amount at a time due to how a fuel injector works

In my experience Gas vehicles with the regular vapour style with a converter and mixer setup on them are far worse even with panel filters ...

I had one at my workplace crank crank crank and not fire first go then switched the ignition off ... ( in this time the whole intake tract is full of gas ) then you go to crank it over again and what happens all that gas in the air tract ignites and sets the airfilter on fire and goes off like a bomb and tends to blow airboxes apart ...

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2 years ago my best friend perished on our roads. The paramedics and emergency services on the scene said it was one of the most horrific pod filter accidents they had ever witnessed, I still think of that accident every day. I can still remember him screaming. The people who were there said my friend died instantly when the pod filter initially exploded. They said it was me that was screaming.

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I still don't see how a paper or foam/mesh product could explode and cause death inside a sealed engine bay. There must have been many factors at work. Could you go into some more detail so we can get a better understanding how this accident may have occured.

I will probably be moving to a enclosed pod enclosure soon, so I am very interested.

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Donnan

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The exploding pod filters are rip off from fast & furious.

The whole making fun of people dying in an accident may still a little too early considering the horrific crash only a couple of weeks ago. So good on you crackhead for making fun of such a shit situation.

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ZCR

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http://cgi.ebay.com.au/AIRBOX-Nissan-Skyli...=item2eab339198

If your that paranoid just buy one of these Airboxes

I believe there available for most skylines

melly has one of those pod filter covers in her car and the car is registered in NSW and it passes, needed the cover to pass rego

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