Ford Racing Oil Filter?

[RandyStinchcomb]

Frpp oil filter is total over-kill, the standard Motorcraft FL-820-S (which are made by Purolator btw) is/are plenty fine for performance appts. btw what what said about Fram filters is true, eversince they were bought-out @15 years ago, ther quality went downhill.

 

[laxdman20]

Fram sucks. Lowest quality oil filter I have ever come across.

 

[Mike97gt]

Don't use Fram stang2003gt, they're crappy.

if you use this frpp oil filter, can you use if for more than 1 oil change?

NEVER reuse a filter. even extended oil change companies such as amsoil recomend the filter be chnaged every 5k miles max. and thats when using very high qualiy synth.

your better off swaping the filter every 3k and just toping off the oil then you would be draining the oil and resuing the filter.

 

[Dorsai]

http://people.msoe.edu/~yoderw/oilfilterstudy/oilfilterstudy.html

Some reading material on filters. And I quote,

"Fram Extra Guard PH8A

This filter cartridge has a small outside diameter with a rather low filter element surface area (193 sqin), and features cardboard end caps that are glued in place. The rubber anti-drainback valve seals the rough metal backplate to the cardboard end cap and easily leaks, causing dirty oil to drain back into the pan. If you have a noisy valve train at startup, this filter is likely the cause. The bypass valves are plastic and are sometimes not molded correctly, which allows them to leak. The backplate has smaller and fewer oil inlet holes, which may restrict flow."

 

[smueller]

Thats a pretty cool filter study. I go to school at MSOE and did not know they did that study here!

 

[Stang|ess]

NEVER reuse a filter. even extended oil change companies such as amsoil recomend the filter be chnaged every 5k miles max. and thats when using very high qualiy synth.

your better off swaping the filter every 3k and just toping off the oil then you would be draining the oil and resuing the filter.

I never do, always change both at 3-5k miles. I was just wondering what the additional benefits of using that filter would be besides better filtering which seems to be overkill for my car.

But it's all subjective I suppose. It's like me saying use Motorcraft instead of Fram because it filters better, but don't use FRPP even though it filters better than Motorcraft.

 

[rconaway]

One of the best filters is the Mobil 1 since it's not paper. There is a website that dissected every filter and analyzed them. Fram got exposed as a piece of crap. There is one other one that was pretty good but I can't remember off the top of my head.

http://www.ntpog.org/reviews/filters/filters.shtml

 

[Stang2003GT]

Im going to pick up the FRPP filter today and also try some Royal Purple.

Ill let you know how it goes.

 

[the98stang]

Spend a few extra dollars and pick up a Motorcraft filter from your local dealership. Your car will thank you.


God, I remember when they were $3 at WalMart. Now Im paying $7 a pop . That's 8 tacos I could buy from JITB!

BHAHAHA.....I got my Motorcraft filer from Walmart for like $2.50

That Ford Racing filter looks dead sexy. Might as well buy it if you have the extra cash.

 

[Stang2003GT]

Got the filter!!!

It is very large and very expensive $14.99!!! I think its worth it.

 

[merc123]

Do this, run the filter for 5k miles and drain the oil. Keep some of that oil. Then run a regular filter and do the exact same thing. Which one is dirtier? I bet it won't matter.

 

[deftsound]

i use motorcraft filters and castrol gtx

 

[tag4car]

i cut a fram extra guard in half and was quite suprised to see a majority cardstock structure in it, i was using wix, now i have a motorcraft on and havent noticed anything bad from it

joey