Here we have a Baldwin B243, big brother to the BT223 from a Saturn SL2. The car is gone now but my Son's new Mazda 3 uses the same filters so up next in this line is a factory Mazda/Ford and currently installed M1-102.
This has 4378km on a fairly dirty engine but seems to have held up well, which isn't surprising even with some chunky bits in the pleats. The pleat spacing at the seam is not as bad on this filter as it was on the B43-S but still not as uniform as the rest of the element. Again, I like the one piece base end element cap and the directional perforations in the center tube. Bypass seems to function fine and the nitrile ADBV was soft and pliable. I cut this open a couple weeks ago and didn't keep the rest but if you look at my other Baldwin posts you'll see the same stuff, solid construction with a coil spring.
This has 4378km on a fairly dirty engine but seems to have held up well, which isn't surprising even with some chunky bits in the pleats. The pleat spacing at the seam is not as bad on this filter as it was on the B43-S but still not as uniform as the rest of the element. Again, I like the one piece base end element cap and the directional perforations in the center tube. Bypass seems to function fine and the nitrile ADBV was soft and pliable. I cut this open a couple weeks ago and didn't keep the rest but if you look at my other Baldwin posts you'll see the same stuff, solid construction with a coil spring.
