Went to Mossy Nissan to pick up an OE air filter today, when i open the box, i noticed that the new air filter i got seems to be made from different material then the old air filter that came in the car.
Both are paper type, but the old one is red-orange in color and is "oily"(after running my finger though the paper media. the new air filter is white and is dry(not oily).. I presume the old one is a JDM air filter. Any idea?


This is the original air filter that came with the car

 

and this is the one i got today:

 

I think you are right.
The new filter I picked up is identical to yours.
I like the original better.
Seems higher quality.

 

The OEM one is very similar to the one that is tagged Nismo.

 

yeah i have the reddish filter also... it looks very similar.. if not the same one as the Nismo filter

 

how come you went and got another filter? the old one didn't look dirty at all

 

The old (red) filter has been cleaned with a brush before i took the picture. Actually, it still looks dirty afterward, but i guess the my digital camera didn't pick up all the dirt that is still stuck on it. As some of you may know, there was a recent firestorm in Southern California. I have to drive my car to work daily with all the ash in the air and when i examined the filter last week, it was obvious that the stock filter kept a bunch of ash from getting into mt intake