Has anyone sucsefully found a K&N filter for the 960's of 1996?

Thanks in advance.

The airbox on my 97 960 looked the same size as my 1990 740 so I tried the K and N and it fit perfectly. The key to keeping the dust out is to oil the K and N at least twice a year, it never looks dirty, but if the oil drys out, dust will get into your motor. You do gain a few ponies, but a good quality paper does filter finer particles.

Don't do it!

K&N seems to have problems producing the correct dimensions for rectangular filters.

They truly don't filter as well--TINSTAFL.

How confident are you of your ability to oil one just right and avoid overoiling and producing an oil mist to coat your AMM?

The rubber surround on the K&N for the 960 had as good a fit as the Volvo filter when I installed mine. You raise an issue about oil mist on the AMM I hadn't previously thought about. I know heat from a defective thermostat in the air box can destroy them. What affect would the oil film have?

Hi there, You can get one at advance auto parts.

I was looking for one the other day. They have it in their catalog but its nowhere to be found on the shelf.
Not that I would ever install one in my car or anything. It may flow more air but it doesn't filter as well. I doubt you will see much of a performance improvement over a clean paper filter. You can spend a third the money at home depot and make a proper cold air intake with no restrictions.
Just my opinion.

Justin
94 965

Why do you say it doesn't filter as well? I haven't read any reports to that affect. The oil holds the dust. I've installed one on my 1992 960 about 30,000 miles ago. I've noticed increased gas mileage (26-28mpg at 70-75mph highway) and increased top end performance(S mode 4500-6000 rpm).

I have also installed one on my 1800E and noticed top end performance improvement and a slight mpg improvement. Many 1800 owners have used them to allow the engine to breath a little easier at top end and gain a little power.

The size of the air intake going to the filter is too small. To extract more power out of an engine you generally need too things... more air and more gas. Thats the purpose of the intercooled turbocharger to compress more fuel and air into each compression stroke. On normally aspirated engines sometimes one does need to modify an overly restrictive air intake to allow it to bring in more cooler outside air.



Craig
92 960 145,000
96 960 75,000
87 745T 170,000
71 1800E 300,000+
67 P1800 80,000
66 122 345,000
66 122 150,000
67 122 200,000

I've used K&N filters some years ago on motorcycles. I wish there was some data avaialble as to thir filtration efficiency. My impression from examining the ones I used on bikes years ago is that they would let everything but rocks through. Does K&N actually present any data indicating their performance vs. standard paper filters. In carburated hperformance, high-revving engines, like Jap bikes, intake mods that improved high end power often came at the expense of low end response. Have any K&N users found this to be true on their Volvos. Just curious. . .

As for over oiling, you could wind up with a very dirty AMM. My Haynes manual indicates that the filament on the AMM goes through a one second temperature increase to 1000 degrees C each time the ignition is switched off in order to burn off contaminants. It is unclear to me whether the one second duration is long enough to burn excess oils, or just coke them, building up brittle residue on the filament.

Steve C
92 945t 115K

I've been using a K&N on my '92 for the last 100K miles. No AMM problems, nor is there any hint of oil residue in the intake track. I noticed a bump in gas mileage, throttle response and high rpm acceleration. I've got near-perfect (no less than is to be expected after 200K miles) compression on all six cylinders, oil use of 1quart every 2K miles (which has been consistent with usage prior to installation of the K&N) and no other evident adverse effects. The filter seal is tighter than the OEM Volvo one.
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Lance '92 965 w/ 180K miles

My friend had one on his explorer. He did an oil analysis. They found that there was a high silica content or something like that. Turns out its the resuld of dust geting into the oil. It went away when he use a cheap paper filter. I would sugest doing an oil analysis. Maybe its different for the 960.
When you noticed the performance improvement, were you replacing an old dirty filter?
Justin 94 965

The paper filter was not exceptionally dirty when I changed it. I was unaware that the element heats to 1000 degrees but that should take care of any oil residue issue. In light of your friends oil analysis findings I will play it safe and oil my K&N filter lightly twice per year as Beemer1 does. The K & N filter fit on the Volvo960 described in 3 posts states it is better than OEM. Perhaps the filter didn't fit well on your friends explorer and dust was getting around it rather than through it. K&N literature claims they tested them and properly oiled the filtration is as good or bettter than paper. But one has to question such advertising hype. DOW chemical I'm sure was telling consumers how safe agent orange was to defoliate under power lines.