K&N Oil Filters

87ttopstang

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Anyone have anything good or bad to say about them? Thinking about using one when I bring the car out for the summer.

Going to use Mobil 1 10w40 for oil.

 

bobbys9350

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they are pretty much the best. i dont know how much they>motorcraft tho?

 

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bobbys9350 said:

they are pretty much the best. i dont know how much they>motorcraft tho?

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for 12 dollars a pop they better gold plate that b1tch too!!!

 

bobbys9350

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lol

 

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Sicarius428

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I use them in all my cars and have no complaints. Not that I will probably notice a differenct till one fails but... it's a little insurance for the extra 5 bucks in my mind. They are suppose to flow more at high rmp than the others is the main difference.
Kevin

 

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Yup

 

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2002BLGT

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I had one blow a gasket out when they first came out with those and havent used once since , hopefully they have gotten better

 

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Nothing but WIX filters for me.

 

Dbeck002

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2002BLGT said:

I had one blow a gasket out when they first came out with those and havent used once since , hopefully they have gotten better

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oil filters dont blow up engines...


people blow up engines...

 

tunedin302

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87ttopstang said:

Anyone have anything good or bad to say about them? Thinking about using one when I bring the car out for the summer.

Going to use Mobil 1 10w40 for oil.

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I've always used the Fram double guard overly expensive filter.

 

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seijirou

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Fram is aboe garbage.
Only Wix or K&N for me, they're practically identical.
Cut open an old fram, and cut open an old K&n/Wix, and you'll scream in horror if the fram came off your car.

 

N8Miller

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tunedin302 said:

I've always used the Fram double guard overly expensive filter.

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lol--- fram is trash... i learned that working at a parts store for the last year!

as for the K&N, rick91gt told me that on a dyno, just switching to a K&N filter, the car saw like 5-6 more HP. are you ever gonna notice that 5hp... nope. but for the extra $5, a $1 per hp sounds good to me.

 

sgarlic

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bobbys9350 said:

they are pretty much the best. i dont know how much they>motorcraft tho?

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Well, unless they use a completely different filter element for 5.0's than they do in every other filter they produce, you are very incorrect.

Every (and I mean every) oil filter study I've come across says although they flow well, they are terrible at actually filtering anything. That's common knowledge in the 4.6 community, and I thought it was here as well. But anyways, do a search for oil filter study, either on google, or on stangnet as well, and you'll see what I'm talking about.

 

tunedin302

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N8Miller said:

lol--- fram is trash... i learned that working at a parts store for the last year!

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Great .... well time to make a change.
Thanks for the info.

 

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Purolator filters are supposed to be good, based on the couple studies I've read on oil filters. Wix ranked almost as good. Both filters are pretty cheap.

Fram filters are pretty terrible... K&N's weren't included in the studies I read but it's dissapointing to hear they don't filter very well...

 

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Don`t know anything about K+N oil filters,other than that they are really expensive here in Canada.
Stay away from Fram,they are the worst .Take a Fram PH8A oil filter and look at the 8 tiny oil entry holes,then compare them to the equivalent Motorcraft FL1A,Purolator and Wix brands.Big difference.