as far as i know it shouldnt, im planning on buying the solo exhaust next year
Question for everyone with a SOLO exhaust
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OMG bro Congratssssssss
PLEASEEEEEEE Let me hear it in person I am dyeing to buy it but I was waiting to hear one in person.
Hmm. Requiring someone to go back to the selling dealer for maintenance is actually against the law. They can make it more difficult to service elsewhere, but cannot tell you where you have to take a vehicle if you are paying for the service/repairs. (Ok, back on topic.)
That being said, an intake (assuming there was a filter there, and that it didn't ingest a poop ton of water) should not kill an engine, let along void a warranty.
Anywho, I have the Solo (and SRI) and the car will be going back to the dealer for some warranty work this week.
Nothing will smoke a motor faster( or void a warranty faster) than dirty air.Hmm. Requiring someone to go back to the selling dealer for maintenance is actually against the law. They can make it more difficult to service elsewhere, but cannot tell you where you have to take a vehicle if you are paying for the service/repairs. (Ok, back on topic.)
That being said, an intake (assuming there was a filter there, and that it didn't ingest a poop ton of water) should not kill an engine, let along void a warranty.
Anywho, I have the Solo (and SRI) and the car will be going back to the dealer for some warranty work this week.
Thus the assumption there is a filter. An engine won't run for 100k plus on unfiltered air, but any aftermarket filter designed within a reasonable range of the stock paper filter will be just fine. From experience: An aftermarket filter is no cause to deny or void a warranty. Ingesting something or a lack of filtration is a different story all together.
An engine won't run for 100k plus on unfiltered air, but any aftermarket filter designed within a reasonable range of the stock paper filter will be just fine. From experience: An aftermarket filter is no cause to deny or void a warranty. Ingesting something or a lack of filtration is a different story all together.
The only valid method of quantifying air filtration is used oil analysis. I have first hand experience with an aftermarket low restriction filter passing sunbstantial quanties of silica. I had 2 U.O.A's prior to installation, two with the filter and two more after the low restriction filter was removed. During the 20k miles the filter was installed both U.O.A's showed substantial increases. I still have that engine with 220k on the clock. The data unfortunately was on a hard drive that died so I can't quote the actual numbers but the U.O.A.'s were done by Blackstone Labs in late 2006 early 2007.Thus the assumption there is a filter.
A poorly filtered engine will quite possibly run 50K plus before manifesting itself in the form of burning oil, lost oil pressure(bearing wear) or valve train wear.
You are absolutely correct that the presence of an aftermarket filter is not grounds to invalidate a warranty as was poven in K&N vs FOMOCO, but poor filtration certainly can and will result in an engine failure which will invalidate a warranty claim.
Air filtration is very simply not something you can say "I've had one for two years and had no problem with it." unless you are doing U.O.A.'s and can validate that point. Otherwise it is simply anecdotal. I had used K&N in several vehicles prior to conducting U.O.A.'s on that particular engine, but have since then removed them all from service and will likely never return them to service. For me anyway, the miniscule (to nonexistant) performance gains are completely overwhelmed by the potential for accelerated engine wear and/or failure.
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