Originally Posted By: MrHorspwer
Whatever will the OP do when he travels to Colorado and finds this:
Maybe just leave the car at the pump and start walking?
He will probably freak out not understanding that at higher altitude less octane is required.
I think if you could have put that oil filter on a healthy engine without ANY media paper it would not soon have caused damage. In a healthy engine there is very little debris contained in the oil. The only way that filter caused damage was if some part of it came out of the filter and plugged...