Sprint Filter P14 Air Filter for Dusty Conditions – Suzuki GSX-8TT (2026) SM245P14

Before this element goes into a GSX-8TT, the question it raises deserves an answer: does 1,800 litres per square metre per second cost this motorcycle anything? The intake of a series machine is a chain of restrictions — ducting, airbox volume, throttle bodies, and a calibration signed off around all of them — and the filter is one term in that sum, usually a modest one. That is what makes a fine medium usable in a standard housing at all, and also why the answer is not a flat no.

Key Features

• Fine dry nonwoven rated at 14 microns, against 80 microns for the standard P08
• Rated flow of 1,800 litres per square metre per second, where the P08 passes 5,050
• Nothing oiled or dressed: no film to dose, and none that can travel downstream
• Takes the place of the original in the standard airbox, with no cutting and no reflash
• Blown through, washed and used again — a fixture, not a consumable
• Two years of cover from Sprint Filter, counted from purchase

Where the restriction actually sits

A filter medium is measured on a bench, per square metre, at a fixed pressure drop. An engine asks for none of that: it wants a mass of air per second, taken through whatever the whole intake allows. A data sheet figure becomes a real limit only once the element's share of the total pressure drop grows large. On a series GSX-8TT that share is small, which is why changing media asks nothing of the fuelling. It is also the only share in the chain that moves over time: a disposable cartridge is at its most open on the day it goes in and closes from then on, unnoticed, because the fuelling quietly compensates. A washable element returns to its starting figure at every cleaning, which is the honest reason to have one.

When to leave this one on the shelf

The 776 cc twin here is a strong engine, and there is a version of this motorcycle for which the P14 is the wrong part: ridden at sustained full throttle, used on circuit, or fitted with a freer exhaust and a matching map. In that use the fine mat becomes the term that decides, and the P08 at 80 microns and 5,050 litres is better balanced — with the P08 F1-85 at 85 microns and 15,000 litres for an engine serviced by running hours. The P14 is specified for the opposite case: dry regions and dusty summers, gravel lanes to the good roads, long touring at part throttle. Finer holds back more and passes less, so the choice follows the air you ride in, not a hierarchy — the T12 at 7 microns and 560 litres sits one step further along.

Care and cleaning

The SM245P14 is serviced dry. Hold an air line to its clean side and work the dirt outwards. Where air leaves something behind, lukewarm water and a mild detergent will lift it; rinse until the water runs clear. Drying cannot be hurried: open air only, no heat, no flame, and back in dry. There is no oiling step. The maintenance sheet sits in the Downloads tab.

Fitment & Compatibility

For the Suzuki GSX-8TT of 2026, seated in the standard airbox where the series element sits. The same part covers three Suzuki models; the full list is in the Fitment tab.