Performance Filter Test

BTrain5489 · Jul 21, 2015

ISSUU - Performance_Air_filter_elements_ flow_analysis_comparison_University_of Wales by Sprint Filter

It's an independent (university) test of the flow rate for performance filters. The test isn't specifically the Panigale's filter design but does include some brands that are popular here.

The results are interesting.

80shilling · Jul 21, 2015

I think the SF PO8 is the Sprint filter that comes with the Superleggera and with the Termignoni Carbon slip-ons. Can someone confirm this definitively?

Thanks for posting.

hsharpag91 · Jul 21, 2015

That blows any MWR claims out the window. Crazy!

kope999R · Jul 22, 2015

switched

to sprint this winter... widened the fairing air inlets and put on short trumpets ... no more running out of air at 10K +

Steve B · Jul 22, 2015

80shilling said:
I think the SF PO8 is the Sprint filter that comes with the Superleggera and with the Termignoni Carbon slip-ons. Can someone confirm this definitively?

Thanks for posting.

Can definitely confirm that's what comes with the new front exit Termis; only have that as info second-hand info on the SL, but if someone wants to lend me theirs for the weekend I'll be glad to have a look...

lamb00j · Jul 22, 2015

Interesting read... I wonder what filter exactly they used for the MWR filter as they make different ones. Is it an HE? They don't explain... Or did I miss that in the article?

Angus1609 · Jul 22, 2015

kope999R said:
widened the fairing air inlets and put on short trumpets

Any details on how you did this and where you got the parts?

990Glen · Jul 22, 2015

Interesting read but it is also qualified by the fact that no monitoring of the filtration effectiveness was made. So flow rates may be great, but the engine could be full of .... too, and thus wear in the combustions spaces could be accelerated etc etc.

Steve B · Jul 22, 2015

990Glen said:
Interesting read but it is also qualified by the fact that no monitoring of the filtration effectiveness was made. So flow rates may be great, but the engine could be full of .... too, and thus wear in the combustions spaces could be accelerated etc etc.

True; due to the multiple layers the cotton filters have vastly more surface area (which is also why they flow less). Sprint claims superior filtration due to their uniform grid size, which does appear to be evident, but at 88 microns and a single layer, what about the significance of smaller particles? Even Sprint's own materials show cotton filters filtering better than the P08 below 80 microns, so perhaps they feel particles that small aren't significant. FWIW, the waterproof Sprint version has smaller 40 micron grid openings and flows as well as or better than any of the paper ones.

Angus1609 · Jul 23, 2015

The 2015 Panigale R and 2014 1199SL both come stock with the Sprint filter....food for thought.

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