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Re: K&N Drop In feedback
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Originally Posted by NJ RTX
Increase in mpg both city and hwy. Ranges between 1 and 2 mpg. I follow this with every tank full of gas and have since the day I bought the Ridge.
The $50 investment was a success for me.
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A 1-MPG increase would be very hard to document unless your engine was fully broken in, outdoor ambient temperatures and relative humidity are identical thruout the various tests, identical fuel grade and fuel purchased at the same station each time, the exact same route and elevation is used on each and every test, wind factors, type of shoes worn (believe it or not), seat position (oh yeah...), etc...
Believe me, if it was really that easy to get more mileage, extra power and/or torque, don't you think that the Honda engineers would have considered using a free-flow air filter such as the K & N from day-1? 
As I posted some time ago on this subject, we had dyno-tested a club-member's Porsche V-8 with and without the K & N. The results were a negligible 2 H.P. gain @ 5500 rpm; hardly what K & N advertised. 
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