Replacement Air Filters FA-1745?

[metroplex]

I'm looking for a replacement air filter for my 03 Marauder air box.

Is the Motorcraft FA-1745 the same as the OE 3W33-9601-AB Mann filter? Motorcraft crossreferences FA-1745 to the 03/04 Crown Vic and the 03/04 Marauder. However my OE Marauder filter states that it is for the Marauder ONLY.

FA-1745 is listed as a replacement for 3W3Z-9601-AA. I know there's a slight difference between the engineering part # and the production part #, but I know the -AA/-AB indicates a different revision.

So... what do you guys use for replacement air filters?

[RF Overlord]

I use the FA-1745...and I intend to use it as long as FoMoCo continues to make it.

[metroplex]

Is it the SAME as the OE German Mann Marauder filter or is it the Mexican "Mann" filter?

What type of seal does it use? The soft silicone-style seal or the harder polyurethane seal found on the pre-03 Vic air filters?

In other words, is it inch for inch the same as the OE filter or is it a slightly different variant possibly made by a different supplier since it's not OE?

[fastblackmerc]

I'm looking for a replacement air filter for my 03 Marauder air box.

Is the Motorcraft FA-1745 the same as the OE 3W33-9601-AB Mann filter? Motorcraft crossreferences FA-1745 to the 03/04 Crown Vic and the 03/04 Marauder. However my OE Marauder filter states that it is for the Marauder ONLY.

FA-1745 is listed as a replacement for 3W3Z-9601-AA. I know there's a slight difference between the engineering part # and the production part #, but I know the -AA/-AB indicates a different revision.

So... what do you guys use for replacement air filters?
Why not spend a little mre $'s and get a K&N? :burn:

[metroplex]

I already have a K&N style filter for my 00 Vic airbox. I'm not sure if it would work in the Marauder airbox but I'm not trying for several reasons:

When I had the cotton gauze filter in my vic, it trapped hardly any dirt/dust/sand. Everything went SOMEWHERE and I'll give you 3 guesses. All of them are "air intake stream".

With a paper filter, everything is trapped because when I pat it down, large solids come flying out. This does not happen with the K&N and upon closer examination, I rarely see dirt stuck on the gauze.

On some air box designs, the dust/dirt gets somewhat separated from the filter. We have such designs on some vehicles, but others like my T-bird, are practically "ram air" systems where the air stream flies straight into the filter element and it gets dirty within 3 months. This is probably why some UOAs show almost no change in Silicon with the use of a K&N on certain vehicles.

Anyhow, due to the lack of responses, I guess everyone is still using the OE paper filter.

I wanted to get a spare Motorcraft filter since I'm ordering a bunch of other stuff.