Recent content by CaptnLuke

I just bought some from RockAuto and they look like absolute garbage. Plus one was bent. I really wanted one piece but I think I'll go OEM on this round.

Thank you SOOO much for substantiating your answer! Now let me see if I understand. When a filter gets plugged up the dirty oil gets bypassed so the motor doesn't get low on oil, correct? So Ford filters put the bypass right at the top so that the dirty oil is at least not picking up more dirt...

Why the motorcraft filters? I thought WIX was the holy grail...

With a phaser delete do I really need to worry about the galleys between the cam journal and phasers? The phaser should just be a solid sprocket now with no movement.

I bought my blocks from Western Motor Sports in Canada. Livernoise also makes some. You give up some high end power and gain some low end power with a tune. You can get a great tune from Western Motorsports and a CARB compliant tune from Livernoise. I am having a local shop tune for me.

I'm new here and I'm scouring these forums for answers. Sounds like there are a lot of smart people here. I don't see a direct, data based answer to my question so I'll post it here. But feel free to send me to another thread if I've just missed it. I just bought a 3 valve 5.4 triton 2006 F150...