Sprint Filter P14 Air Filter for Dusty Conditions – KTM 990 Duke R (2024–2026) PM175P14

Almost every decision about a motorcycle is one-way. This one is not. The P14 and the standard P08 drop into the same housing on the 990 Duke R, both are dry, both are washed rather than consumed, and neither is used up by being tried. An owner who cannot tell from a specification sheet whether their roads justify a finer medium can simply find out: run one, keep the other on the shelf, and let the evidence decide instead of an argument read on a product page.

Key Features

• Fourteen microns of filtration; 1,800 litres per square metre per second of flow
• Interchangeable with the other media for this housing — same box, same fixings
• Nothing is consumed by fitting it: cleaned with an air line and used again
• Never oiled, so swapping media leaves no residue behind in the airbox
• Occupies the series airbox with no modification and no remapping
• Warranted two years from purchase and designed to outlast the service book

A decision you can take back

Reversibility is unusual in this corner of the parts catalogue. Most intake components are bought on an argument and kept because returning them is awkward; here the awkwardness disappears, because both media are permanent objects that survive being swapped. A rider can fit the fine one through a dry late summer, put the standard weave back for the winter, and keep both indefinitely. That is not a sales pitch for owning two — it is the reason nobody has to be certain in advance.

What each of the two offers

The standard weave takes 80 microns and passes 5,050 l/m²/sec; the PM175P14 takes 14 and passes 1,800. Finer holds more back and lets less through, and that exchange is the entire difference — not a ladder with a top. Neither makes a standard 990 Duke R quicker, because no element in a standard airbox does. What both offer is an intake resistance that begins lower than a disposable panel's and returns there after cleaning, rather than climbing quietly between services.

Care and cleaning

Compressed air, applied to the clean side and pushed out through the dirty one, is the whole of the usual service. A wash comes later: lukewarm water, a little mild detergent, and rinsing until the water leaves clear. Then open air, moving if possible, for as long as it needs — never a heat gun, never a radiator, never a flame — and back into the box only when it is dry the whole way through. The maintenance sheet is in the Downloads tab of this page.

Fitment & Compatibility

The P14 element for the KTM 990 Duke R, model years 2024 to 2026, in the standard airbox in place of the original. Five machines carry this code between them across three engine sizes. Since the tank badge alone cannot identify a fitment on a shared housing, order by element code and model year; the Fitment tab lists them all.