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Dec 21, 2009 | 04:36 PM

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WTF backwards air filter

I haev a 1996 firebird Formula LT1 For some reason my airfilter was installed with the metal side up, and the guy told me when i bought it that he had just changed it, well i found out that the airfilter today about a tad over 1k miles later that it was installed with the metal side up. How bad is this? would my engine be alright?

it has the stock intake

Dec 21, 2009 | 04:40 PM

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metal side up?? what kind of filter?

Dec 21, 2009 | 04:45 PM

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looks like this.

Dec 21, 2009 | 04:48 PM

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oh ok, from what i remember the metal side should face the engine. Is that what you mean when metal side up?

Dec 21, 2009 | 04:51 PM

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when i went in to check it to make sure of how dirty it was the metal grating side was facing me, the paper side was down.

is there anything i should be worried about?

Dec 21, 2009 | 05:04 PM

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The paper side should be on the side that fresh air comes in from.

Dec 21, 2009 | 05:05 PM

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yeah it wasn't installed correctly lol

what im asking is, is there anything i should be worried about, im kinda just worried my engine or something will be messed up having run it like that for like 1000 miles

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Dec 21, 2009 | 05:14 PM

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yeah itll get filterd, but will clog up alot faster. i wouldnt say it would be anything to worry about, unless parts of the filter are actually missing.

Dec 21, 2009 | 05:15 PM

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alright "phew" i was worried. the cars only got 70k miles. either the guy was blind in one eye and couldnt see out the other or he was having a rough day lol

Dec 21, 2009 | 05:17 PM

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filter works the same both ways really, it will still clean the air without letting anything big like leaves ect threw. On my suncoast air box the filter has the Rubber seal on the bottom

Dec 21, 2009 | 05:29 PM

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clean it out good before you flip it. otherwise all that dirt that it filtered while backwards will be going through the engine.

Dec 21, 2009 | 06:56 PM

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clean it out good before you flip it. otherwise all that dirt that it filtered while backwards will be going through the engine.

Exactly what I was thinking.

The metal screen is to stop the paper media from being sucked into the engine when it's very dirty and becoming a restriction. THEREFORE metal screen side towards the engine.

If it's just a regular throw away filter, just throw it away and get a new one.