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Can having a hole in your air filter cause poor gas mileage?

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Old Jul 28, 2003 | 10:04 AM
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Can having a hole in your air filter cause poor gas mileage?

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Old Jul 28, 2003 | 10:09 AM
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YES AND WILL DESTROY UR ENGINE
Old Jul 28, 2003 | 10:18 AM
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Originally posted by kevlo911
YES AND WILL DESTROY UR ENGINE
the hole I had was tiny....I just noticed it on sunday and god knows how long i've been driving like that...fortunately I haven't been able to drive lately but uhm....what exactly do you mean by
"destroy"?
Old Jul 28, 2003 | 10:23 AM
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depends how big hte hole is, dirt and alot of other crap that the filter is suppose to trap is going into ur engine

and it is getting stuck on the intake vavle and the cylinder walls and stuff, since alot of the parts part miving it is probily being scratched up inside ur engine which is not a good thing
Old Jul 28, 2003 | 10:45 AM
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get a new filter. easy as that. will cost you a lot less than a possible engine problem. Get right on it ASAP.
Old Jul 28, 2003 | 11:01 AM
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yeah I put my stock airbox back in for now....

funny thing is...the car still performs pretty well...after putting in th stock airbox I had my sister drive myc ar around (my license is currently suspended) This guy inhis Q45 starts messin with my sister and she got all ****ed off, drafted the dude then proceeded to walk him from 65-133mph.

We had about three car lengths before my sister shut it down. I was f*cking proud as hell of my lil sis....but I made her promise not to ever do that again.....expecially with my car...haha.

So getting back to my problem.....stock airbox is back in. The hole on the filter was about the size of a lollipop stick from a blowpop. And I would guesstimate that I had theproblem for approx 10,000 miles. You guys think
there is a strong possibility of extensive damage?
Old Jul 28, 2003 | 11:13 AM
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anything big mostlikely would have got trapped by hte maf screen but the small things, who knowa what got in there
Old Jul 28, 2003 | 02:21 PM
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lol.. i love the little sneak on the street racing.. LOL

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