Oil Filter Comparison

[CMcAllister]

Regardless the brand or type, I've always used the largest filter that I could get for an application. I also see guys using remote mounts with the large filters. Seems sensible to me that a filter with more media surface area will flow more oil over a set period of time at a specific pressure and be less of a restriction in the system.

[Ed Wright]

Sorry, Joe. Too many years ago. Don't remember any numbers. I still have one of them. Have thought about putting it back on. I have a lower volume pump (my 410" Sprint car engine was a dry dump) and always use thinner oil now. May just go back to it.
I also put a 1/8" Allen pipe plug in the bypass valve in the factory oil filter mount. Everything always goes through the filter.

[B Parker]

Bad experience with fram Junk Junk Juuuuuunk. BP

[SSDiv6]

The K&P Engineering oil filter is the best engineered of all the oil filters in the market. They also spent a great amount of money to get FAA certification on the oil filter.

My former manager in my last job, spent 30+ years in NASCAR as the engine shop manager for Robert Yates and later Penske. They tested many oil filters and their preference was Wix, Baldwin and Hastings oil filters. On the dyno they ran Oberg oil filters.

[Adger Smith]

I don't know if the problem has been fixed, but quite a few years ago there was several Cummins engines came in the shop with pistons burned up. The oilers were stopped up with tiny hair like stuff. The common thread was the Fram oil filter. I didn't read it, but was told that later there was some bulletins about the excess diesel pollution in the oil eating up the bonding of the paper in the filters. That was supposed to stop the oil spray that cooled the piston. At the time I had a 92 Dodge 3/4 ton shop truck with a Cummins. I used a Wix after that. It has about 250,000 on it now and no problems.

[Shake & Bake]

I use the K & N "Performance Gold Oil Filter"
Height: 5.719"
Diameter: 3.696"
Thread: 13/16"-16UNS

I also use the Wix 51060R filter.

[340Cuda]

I have seen lots of tests like this one and the Fram filters seem to always end up on the bottom.

However as many as they sell they must be "good enough" for many applications.

It does not matter if it is tires, batteries or oil filters, it does not matter as much as who makes them and to what specifications they were built.

Like many others that have posted I use the Wix filters and have been happy with them.

However I would like to see a comparison that included racing filters.

[devo340]

Originally Posted by Adger Smith

I don't know if the problem has been fixed, but quite a few years ago there was several Cummins engines came in the shop with pistons burned up. The oilers were stopped up with tiny hair like stuff. The common thread was the Fram oil filter. I didn't read it, but was told that later there was some bulletins about the excess diesel pollution in the oil eating up the bonding of the paper in the filters. That was supposed to stop the oil spray that cooled the piston. At the time I had a 92 Dodge 3/4 ton shop truck with a Cummins. I used a Wix after that. It has about 250,000 on it now and no problems.

I bought a new 2003 Dodge with the Cummins. I was told by the dealer to use only Mopar or Cummins filters to ensure the engine was covered under warranty. I still own that truck & have only used those two brands of filters without any issues. I did work at Napa for 18 years, & knew about the Fram filter lack of quality. The media would come apart from moisture from condensation. At that time. the company that made the Napa & Wix filters was Guard Corp, may still be, found out the Fram media problem during testing. Fram was notified & elected to do nothing about it. I always kept a filter cut-away on my counter to show customer why the 4 dollar filter was better than the 1.99 filter.