[Shpyder]

Okay. So my '93 3kGT needed a clean air filter for a while, but I was busy with other stuff, so kept postponing it. I ordered an Injen kit a while ago and it just sat in my bedroom for weeks (just like all my other car parts).

The GT is an old car with 160,000 miles on it...looks like whoever had it before me drove it pretty rough, since the interior isn't exactly sexy and the paint is fading, etc. The car would sometimes shut off during a few seconds of initial cold-morning start up idling, and the RPMs would surge every now and then. Also, one thing I noticed, was that when starting it up cold, the RPMs never shot up to 1.5K - 2K RPM, like most cars...they instead just sat at very sluggish 850ish. I figured it was the idle control, fuel pump, or something else. Didn't even think about the most basic thing, the damn air filter.

I finally got off my lazy ass and installed this thing today (holidays, yay!), and holy shit. My car drives like new, Ijust can't believe how much difference a clean air filter made. I have rock solid idle RPMs, and the motor idles at 2K RPM during a cold start up, before gradually coming down. The car warms up twice as quickly now too (associated directly with the start-up RPMs I guess).

So yeah. I learned my lesson. That's probably why I was getting sucky gas mileage all that time too!