How can you tell if you are able to wash out an air filter or not? I'm assuming the stock air filter is not able to be washed but most aftermarket CAI are washable? Should I get the cheap one? I know you get what you paid for but how wrong can you get with CAI? I'm not really looking for performance, just get a clean filter and replace the stock AF

I was interested in buying this but it is out of stock
http://www.americanmuscle.com/muv6coairins.html

This looks like the exact thing on the americanmuscle.com but more expensive
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/94-98...=p4506.c0.m245

And this looks like the exact same thing but painted black and A LOT cheaper....
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/99-00...=p4506.c0.m245

 

most aftermarket CAI's use washable filters. i don't know of one that doesn't.

 

what about the stock air filter?

 

Your stock paper air filter isn't washable. If an aftermarket CAI air filter is washable, it'll state that in the information

..new paper air filters aren't that expensive

 

I went through all this and decided to stick with paper and stock intake. Clean paper's just as good and the stock tube is better than all but one or two aftermarket cai's. If you go cai you want a really wide tube above the filter and a pipe down the fender that gets actual cold air. The cool looking ones with the exposed filter will actually get hotter air from the engine bay and be worse than stock.

 

what's the better CAI than?

the CAI in here has an aluminum wall so the exposed filter is only sucking air from the ground.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/94-98...=p4506.c0.m245

 

Some people have a lot of nerve calling their air intake a CAI.,, there's NOTHING COLD about that CAI

It's sucking in HOT underhood air.. it's aluminum tube will heat that hot air even further