Is it possible to modify the stock airfilter box to fit a K&N or similar filter? yet retain the stock look in the engine bay?
Cheers todd

Yep - i had a K&N in my late filter box. The last sort that went on a 1600 twin port
It fits straight in

I will try and find out the model number that it came off

I prolly should have specified that I meant an earlier type oil bath filter .... I know it would require modifying the lid of the box. Just curious to know if it has ever been done ... ?
Cheers Todd

I had a Unifilter sponge element panel in my first 76, with the rectangular filter box. No mods required, just buy the filter and drop her in.

Hi

You might be better off getting a plastic air cleaner from a L bug (I assume where talking bugs here), they have paper element that could be replaced with a sponge element, apart from a bit of fettling with the oil breather it would bolt straight on.

Steve

I was hoping to retain the stock look from the outside (trying to make it look factory) but was just wonderingif it was possible to improve the filter ...cheers
todd

if u want to retain the stock look why bother?
more info click link below
http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=80954 

because a k&n would be more efficient i think .....
T

FYI I am running a K&N panel filter in a stock air box on my daily (Mirage) and am not really convinced it makes much of a difference. To get a better effect from induction, I think you might need proper CAI, just changing filter elements won't have much effect in my opinion. But you could try an experiment, do a couple of quick trials with and without any air filter and see if makes a difference.

I have done the experiment on my daily driver. (a 75 series landcruiser) and I think it does make a difference (tho fairly minor) However I'm not really after amazing power, just clean air and easier to clean filter. I was just a thought, but seems like too much mucking around ...
Cheers Todd

any after market cleaners incorporate a velocity stack?

I ran my solex on socks and it's not much different aside the sound. i'd like to think it's a bit better.
but surely it must be a placebo effect

Hey Chippy, there's at least one other person out here who understands your question and why you want to do it to an oil bath filter. I have wondered about that one as well, buts its way down on my list of 'actually-gunna-doo-stuff' ...

Maybe the website should have a topic area devoted to nay-sayers, so the rest of us can just get on and develop our ideas without the energy suckers dragging it back all the time.

Chippy,I am assuming you have a 1500 or 1600 upright engine,I have 1 only paper filter that replaces the oil bath insert at my workshop if that is what you need. Let me know if that is what want.Cheers Les

you do realise that the oil bath aircleaners were the most effective, it was only cost cutting that they went to the plastic with paper element type

big boy pod filter K&N?
grab a welder, angle grinder and some junk metals

I am not debating the efficiency of an oil bath cooler ... I just believe (mistaken or not) that the K&N type reusable filter is cleaner and easier to maintain. I will have a fiddle with it and see whayt I can come up with. Hell I might just leave it well enuf alone! lol
cheers Todd

hey chippy i know what grumble is offering and its the direct replacement filter and its dry

Grumble, do you have a pic of the filter ??? cheers Todd

Page 63 of the April 2010 Hot VWs magazine has a photo of an Empi accessory but it doesnt mention if they are still being made. Its a modified air filter lid for a 1500 oil bath air cleaner, and a special air filter that fits inside the cleaner.

I'm not so sure about the chrome but the idea is exactly what this thread started off as.

Todd I don't have a pic of the element but it looks just like the top of the oil bath filter,simply take the top off,clean the oil out and fit the new top. Sorry about no pic but I am indisposed at the moment.Les

sadly I dont have a copy of the april 2010 hotvws .... not sure my little country town newsagent stocks it ... lol , will see if I can find it.
Cheers Todd :FD