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Terry Borcheller, a K&N User Since Age 5, Ready for Grand-Am Racing Season

Mar 8, 2006

At 5-years-old race car driver Terry Borcheller knew he had to have two things, a cool K&N sticker on his first motorcycle and a K&N filter. At 12, one of K&N’s youngest customers was using our filters on his go karts.

Race Car Driver Terry Borcheller

At 39-years-old the Gainesville, Georgia resident has 6 professional Series Drivers Championships, winning 2 races on a single weekend 8 times. Terry also has 57 Professional Race wins in 7 series at 20 tracks. “K&N products have always been part of my racing life.”

Terry started his 2006 season with Brian Nott’s new Blackforest Racing Ford Mustang in the Grand-Am Cup series at Daytona. At the start of the race Forest Barber and Terry were 34th on the 49-car class grid, when the race ended they came in sixth, only 17 seconds away from the win.

“I run the stock K&N air filter with the Ford Mustang,” said Terry. “Anytime I use a K&N filter I gain performance and fuel economy.

Terry and co-driver Harrison Brix finished fifth in the Rolex Sports Car Series race in Mexico at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. Terry was only 90 1/2 seconds out of fourth place.

Terry Borcheller at Grand Prix of Mosport 2005

There are a lot of elements to winning, Terry said. “You have to have the right team and the right motor.”

Terry raced Le Mans in 2002. “Picture your worst day at work then intensify it, picture having to focus all the time for 24 hours, picture working from daylight to darkness and feeling every type of emotion and that’s Le Mans,” said Terry. “A split second mistake or some oil on a track could mean the loss of a car worth ¾ of a million dollars. It’s easy to go from employed to unemployed or from a hero to zero in thousandths of a second, but the intensity is awesome.”

During a 24 hour endurance race we need to make sure we have the cleanest path to the motor, said Terry. “The team owners and the engine builders tell me K&N filters do the job.”

Terry compared racing to a chess match and said he likes the strategy of trying to come out first at the end.

“I’m happy to have K&N’s support, I’ve used the filters since I was a kid,” said Terry. “The company is very easy to represent, K&N makes great products.”

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For 30 Years Bob Wirth R&D Services has been Adding Performance to Engines

Mar 8, 2006

Bob Wirth R&D Services is an engine development shop in Hayward, California. The company builds engines for midgets, motorcycles, road racing and circle track racing. Bob has even put together engines for lumberjack chain saw competitions.

Engine Dyno at Bob Wirth R&D Services

Bob builds up engine performance. When Bob puts an engine on the company dynamometer we try to duplicate field circumstances, said Bob’s wife Lois Crayder. “We help our customers with the performance they want to see on the race track,” said Lois. “We also use K&N Engineering’s air filters for testing. K&N filters increase the ability of an engine to breathe which can increase power.”

Bob’s shop has been in business for 30 years and values its scientific approach but down to earth values. “Our customers find us through the racetracks or word of mouth,” said Lois. “Our job is to make more efficient, more powerful and reliable engines. We use 4 to 5 of K&N filters depending on the environment and the engine. We want to be at the front of the race.”

K&N Engineering in Riverside, California has been in business for more than 35 years. In addition to our washable/reusable High Flow Air Filters, K&N offers four lines of High Flow Intake Kits that provide guaranteed horsepower. K&N also started a revolution with Fuel Injection Performance Kits and AirCharger Kits which allow a smooth flow of air from the company’s famous washable and reusable air filter. K&N Air Filters and Intake Kits are backed by the famous K&N million Mile Limited Warranty.

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K&N Air Flow Engineer/NHRA Top Comp Class Driver Jonathan Fiello Off to Good Start

Mar 7, 2006

“I race to have fun, but I really race to win,” said K&N Project Engineer and Top Comp Class driver Jonathan Fiello. The 25-year-old Yucaipa, California resident has been in the game for 9 years. Jonathan’s most recent race was the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series: Division 7 at the Firebird Raceway in Phoenix, Arizona.

Jonathan Fiello's 2003 Undercover Dragster

Jonathan Fiello at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway 2006

“I was 8 out of forty-eight in the Top Comp Class,” said Jonathan. “I lost second round because I broke a starter in the stadium lanes. I was really upset because the car was running so good.” Jonathan drives a 2003 undercover dragster with a 635 cubic inch big bock Chevrolet. It is fuel injected on alcohol and runs about 1200 horsepower. His dragster’s wheel base is 230 inches long.

Jonathan runs K&N’s valve covered breather filters, K&N nozzle filters (E-3003) and K&N’s big block Chevy oil filters. “Since I run the motor on methanol we have to change the oil filter frequently,” he said. “When we redo the engine and pull the oil pan out we noticed it stays clean, it’s unreal.” Jonathan said K&N oil filters are a key component for his motor.

K&N Fuel Injection Line Air Filters (E-3003) are a unique way to protect a high performance engine from contaminants through aeration holes in the fuel injection nozzles. These filters slip onto the injector nozzle and protect the aeration hole from dust and debris. Sold individually, these filters have a 1 ¼ outside diameter and a 1 1/16 height and fit securely over ¼ to ½ fuel injection nozzles.

“My job at K&N helps me with racing. I have a degree in engineering, but I come to work and love to study air flow,” said Jonathan. “I also listen to the people I work with at K&N and go home and see what new knowledge I can apply to my engine.”

K&N Engineering’s premium Performance Gold Oil Filter has many features to satisfy the demands of racers such as drilled safety wire holes for racing, heavy duty construction and a sturdy one-inch wrench nut to make oil filter removal quick and easy. “We just jack the car up and plop it off,” said Jonathan. “It’s so easy to remove, that it has taken me as little as 3 minutes, very awesome.”

Jonathan’s said his last two years of racing have been his best. “In 2004 I won the championship for the southern California Super Eliminator Series,” he said. “In 2005 I finished second in the Mike’s Transmission Top Comp races in Las Vegas, Nevada. I missed the championship by ten points, and that was a heartbreaker.”

Jonathan’s racing team is a family affair. His brother Daniel and father Nick are part of Fiello Racing. “I love to work on the car, it is relaxing and so much fun,” Jonathan said. “For me, it’s the love of racing.”

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Del Worsham NHRA Racing Team off to a Good Start After 2nd Event

Mar 2, 2006

It’s still early in the 2006 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing season, and for driver Phil Burkart the early part of the season has been good.

Burkart of Del Worsham Racing earned a semi-final finish at the season opener in Pomona and came away with their second consecutive trip to the third round of racing in Phoenix, Arizona at the Firebird International Raceway.

Crowd cheers as the two CSK crews see who can tear down and build up an engine the fastest. (Photo courtesy of delworsham.com)

Blue Team Wins the "Crew Challenge" (Photo courtesy of delworsham.com)

K&N Flame Logo to Run All Season on Both Team Worsham Cars (Photo courtesy of delworsham.com)

Phil Burkart and his blue Checker, Schuck’s Kragen Funny Car team use K&N oil filters (HP-5001). “Arizona is in the middle of a horrible drought,” said Worsham Team Manager Bob Wilber. “The air is so dusty it’s hard to breathe. All that dust could cause problems, but with the K&N filter it was all good. In fact, we had more problems breathing than we did running our cars.”

K&N Engineering’s premium Performance Gold Oil Filter has a lot of features to satisfy the demands of racers. We use thick canister walls for extra strength and durability which reduces the risk of damage from loose rocks and debris. K&N’s filter also has drilled safety wire holes for racing and a sturdy one-inch wrench nut to make oil filter removal quick and easy.

Team Worsham may have enjoyed the K&N filter during their “crew-challenge” in Phoenix. “The red team and the blue team had to see who could work the fastest in the pit,” said Wilber. The K&N filter is easy to install, the crews could spin it on with one hand and tighten it. "A huge crowd came out to watch our two teams compete, as they started their motors, shut them off, then tore each engine down, replaced all 8 pistons, rebuilt them, and fired them up again," said Wilber. "The blue team won."

Phil left Arizona in 5th place; Del Worsham in 6th place. “Both of our cars did well,” said Wilber. “Del lost in round two by 3-thousandths of a second.” Wilber said it looked like a dead heat. “You can’t blink, you can’t snap your fingers or even think about the time 3-thousandths of a second really is in, 3-thousandths of a second,” he said. “But, you can certainly lose a drag race in 3-thousandths of a second.”

Team Worsham is getting ready for Gainesville where Phil will drive an orange and black 2005 Monte Carlo. For the first time K&N Engineering has a marketing relationship with Worsham Racing and CSK Auto, Inc., that changes the blue color to K&N colors for one race at the 37th annual Gatornationals. “It’s crazy, we have a push for Pomona, then Phoenix, then two weeks off,” said Wilber. “Just when we get into the swing of things we have to wait.”

“The body of the K&N car is ready to roll,” said Wilber. “We won’t see it until it gets to Gainesville, and we’re excited about it.” Phil will be driving the 7,000 HP 500 cubic inch Hemi supercharged K&N Nitro Funny car.

The 37th annual NHRA Gatornationals begin on March 17. It is considered the first race of the season in the east and people come from all over the world to watch, said Wilber.

It will be televised by ESPN2, check your local program guide for times and dates.

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K&N Releases Air Filters for NASCAR Truck & Busch Series Racers

Feb 28, 2006

One of the nation's largest and fastest growing sports is NASCAR. As consumers flock to races and drivers continue to wow the spectators, K&N Engineering has discovered a new niche market with new 2-ply cotton un-oiled filters designed for NASCAR series racers.

E-3024R NASCAR air filter

NASCAR (stock-car and truck) racers have a choice of K&N's new replacement air filters (E-3024R, E-3025R, E-3026R, E-3027R, E-3028R, E-3029R, E-3030R, E-3031R). "The 14 inch round filters are for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and the NASCAR Busch Series; The16 inch round is for the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series," said K&N Engineering Sports Marketing Director Charles Maier. "We offer the new filter to teams in quarter inch increments from 3, 3 ¼, 3 ½, 3 ¾, and 4 for both the 14 and 16 inch filter." There are 5 of the size 14 and 5 of the size 16. Eight filters are available now and two more will be available soon.

NASCAR rules require air filters in order to race. K&N's new 2-ply cotton un-oiled filters meet NASCAR requirements. "The 2-ply cotton works the same as our 4-ply," said Maier. "It just allows more air to flow."

"K&N is not trying to convince the racing teams by telling them our product is better," said Maier. "We're building the best air filter and letting the teams decide for themselves, and when they see their racers are running better they'll know our product is no snake oil." K&N makes a quality filter and many of the racers do not have to be convinced.

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