[SantaGuy]

This may look like a PT thread but it's not. I did install a K&N dropin filter in my 2006 NA PT Vert but that's not an exciting story. Including opening the hood and filter box that operation may have taken all of 3 minutes tops.

This story starts with the PT and moves to the Chevy Venture. My wife and I decided as long as I was replacing the PT's air filter with a K&N we might as well try to get better fuel mileage out of the van so I ordered one for each vehicle.

The Venture airbox is in a little harder to reach place and requires you remove the breather tube and mass air sensor to get to the filter. This van is a 97 and when I bought it shortly after Christmas last year, it only had 80,000 miles on it. The van lived most of it's life in the country and as we were soon to find out it was a rough 80K. It gets good-for-a-van gas mileage, has plenty of power and rides great BUT it's been nickel and dimeing us to death.

So it should not have surprised me that when I got the air filter out it looked as though a rat had built a nest in the airbox. I'm not sure how the van even ran it was so restricted. It is undoubtedly the worst air filter I've ever seen and I've seen a few.

So we'll see how it goes for the PT and the Venture.