Last year a put in a new air filter from DAP.
It was about the time Advance AP was buying them out.

I was pulling the air box Saturday, and I get this black goo on my hands - WTF?
The air filter gasket had melted into a viscous tar.




Here you can see how it puddled in the outlet.



It took me almost 2 hours to clean the inside of the AFM.

The air box & TID wasn't worth cleaning, so I cobbed together a Home Depot TID.




Like Mom used to say: "When you get lemons - make lemonaid!

 

Wow, thats pretty crazy. I guess the air filter couldn't hold up to the awesome heat of a rotary engine.

 

Haha omg i had the SAME exact thing happen to me. Time to go K&N my friend.

 

If I still had the receipt, I could file a claim.

I have always had a CAI on this car.

 

I already went with a Ractive heat shielded cone.

But for anyone looking there is one on e-bay right now.

 

Do you recall where you got it?

Maybe we can run down who made this piece of ****.

 

man that sucks, hope it doesnt happen to anyone else

 

thats race gravy +15whp

 

I'm lucky it dosen't appear to have damaged the compressor.

 

make sure it didnt get past the turbo.... the up pipe between the turbo and tmic is where i would check next.

 

You're right - I need to check it as soon as the rain stops.
I hate to imagine the inside of IC.

 

THIS HAPPENED TO ME

it wasnt nearly this bad, only a little annoying black puddle in my air box. then i got a cone filer and everything was cool, but this is definitly an annoying *** problem

 

This is a classic example of why it's worth paying a few extra buck for OEM parts. It's good you posted this SureShot, people need to see this stuff.

 

In case anyone is looking for a good K&N, here's one on ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...MEWA%3AIT&rd=1