Uni Filter air filters are unsurpassed in airflow and are the most cost effective way to increase horsepower and torque. When your engine breathes better it is more responsive and will produce more power. Installing a Uni Filter air filter will protect your engine and help to keep carbs clean by stopping more dirt. Installation is easy - and you can immediately expect increased overall performance over OEM air filters. Uni's revolutionary two-stage design not only flows more air but comes apart for easy cleaning. Simply remove your existing filter, toss it, and drop in a Uni Filter.

Uni High Performance Air Filters Facts

Open cell industrial grade filter foam represents the latest advance in air filtration technology. This section describes how and why it works so well when compared to the other three types also in common use. An optimum air filtering system is very inexpensive insurance against untimely replacement of rings, valves, bearings, and fouled spark plugs. These items represent very significant maintenance costs. Additional benefits are provided by higher performance, better gas mileage, and lower emission products.

With an engine operating at the optimum air-fuel ratio of 15 or 16 to 1 (air volume to gasoline vapor volume), it normally means that 10,000 to 15,000 'gallons' of air are sucked into the cylinders for every gallon of liquid gasoline in the tank. The exact volume of air, of course, depends on the engine displacement, RPM, and miles per gallon. For example, a 2800cc engine turning 2600 RPM at 55 MPH got 26 miles per gallon, and used 23,000 gallons of air per gallon of gasoline in the tank. You can imagine what 23,000 gallons of air and dust going into your engine every half hour would do if you had no air filtration at all.

Paper Filtration

Pleated paper elements are used by more vehicles than any other type for these reasons:

1. They are the least expensive for the manufacturer to install as original equipment from the factory.

2. For the largest percentage of operating conditions (street and highway driving) they perform well enough to satisfy the owner/driver at minimal acceptable levels.

3. The elements are dry, easy to handle, and convenient to replace.

4. Since they are 'throw away' items (cannot be cleaned for reuse), they represent a large and profitable part of the replacement market, while occupying our landfills.

Paper filters are a stacked matting of fibers creating a random weave approximately 1/2mm thick, and rely on the 'screening' effect to stop dirt particles. Airflow per square inch is so poor that the paper must be pleated using many feet of material to make a filter. All dirt or dust particles must be caught on the surface or not at all. Each time a particle is caught, it stops up a hole. From the moment you start your engine, you have a rapidly decreasing air flow rate. Paper also has two other big drawbacks for off-road use. Any moisture reaching the element causes the fibers to swell, reducing airflow even more. Another is the possibility of rupture. Paper is not a very strong material, especially where it is creased to form each pleat. Intake manifold backfires, or cleaning attempts with compressed air, usually rupture the paper leaving the filter ineffective.

Pleated Gauze or Fabric Filtration

This is another screen type that is only 1mm thick. If the dirt is not stopped on the surface, it is not stopped at all. These filters are sold on the pretense that they maintain an oil curtain for the air to pass through, thereby catching all dirt particles. It is impossible to maintain an oil curtain. The oil soaks the threads of the gauze or cloth, but does not span the openings; otherwise, the air could not get through. The dirt particles that do hit the threads have a good chance of being caught; the others simply go through. The reason the filter does not look dirty on the inside is because the dirt went into the engine. You can easily demonstrate this fact yourself by coating the inside of your housing or carb throat with a thin layer of grease to trap some of the dirt not caught by the filter or you can place a foam filter inside the gauze element to prove the same thing.

The one advantage that this type of element has over paper is greatly reduced airflow restriction; however, poor filtration efficiency is the price you pay. When dirt builds up, filtering action improves, but now the airflow is poor like paper elements.

Open Cell Filter Foam

The development of this special foam represented a major advancement in air filtration technology. Foam air filters now combine great airflow capability, huge dust holding capacity, and very high filtration efficiency for extremely small particles.

Fully reticulated (open pore) foam is a honeycomb of tiny, interlocking cells of uniform size, which create an impossible journey for dirt particles since there are no straight-through passageways. Each passageway (16 to 25mm long) is like hundreds of very small centrifugal/oil bath filters connected one to another. In this way, foam traps and holds the particles throughout the entire volume of foam. This is why they are referred to as 'full depth' filters in contrast to the paper or gauze elements, which are screens, or 'surface type' filters. The cell strands stop the dirt, while the oil film holds the dirt like fly paper until removed for cleaning.

For the following Suzuki motorcycles:

1977 Suzuki GS750B
1978 Suzuki GS750EC
1978 Suzuki GS750C
1979 Suzuki GS850GN US
1979 Suzuki GS750N
1979 Suzuki GS750LW
1979 Suzuki GS750LN
1979 Suzuki GS750EN
1980 Suzuki GS850GT
1980 Suzuki GS850GLT / G
1980 Suzuki GS1000GT
1980 Suzuki GS1000GLT
1981 Suzuki GS850GX
1981 Suzuki GS850GLX
1981 Suzuki GS1000GX
1981 Suzuki GS1000GLX
1982 Suzuki GS850GZ
1982 Suzuki GS850GLZ
1982 Suzuki GS1100GZ
1982 Suzuki GS1100GLZ
1982 Suzuki GS1100GKZ
1982 Suzuki GS1100GK2Z
1983 Suzuki GS850GLD
1983 Suzuki GS850GD
1983 Suzuki GS1100GLD
1983 Suzuki GS1100GKD
1983 Suzuki GS1100GD