cut-aways of various filters

[Donald]

I looked at a few youtube videos of various filter cut-aways. Quite honestly the only one that stood out was the Amsoil. The Mobil 1 which I thought would be very good, looked a bit cheaply made. I know it has excellent media, but the general construction was not up to the cost. IMHO

 

[tig1]

Wrong opinion about M1 filters. Also oil filters are important, but air filters are far more important for the life of your engine. Many engines go for 200-300K with the OCOD with regular quality oil changes.

 

[Quest]

Originally Posted By: tig1
Wrong opinion about M1 filters. Also oil filters are important, but air filters are far more important for the life of your engine. Many engines go for 200-300K with the OCOD with regular quality oil changes.


+1 to that.

As much as many BITOGers and posters ranting about orange can's paper construction (it's not paper! It's a fibre-based material doped in resins to give strength), so long as proper /conservative OCI is being practiced, engines can easily lasts 200+k miles or more.

Many a time I laughed in front of the computer when I saw posters posting oil filter cutoffs and started critising the quality/construction and then trying to deduce the performance/reliability outcomes basied on visual information...... how unscientific can it be?

Q.

 

[warrior]

Wrong opinion? Since when is an opinion wrong? My opinion...all maintenance is important. EOM (Equal Opportunity Maintenance) on my car....

 

[crw]

Tell that to my VW which knocked badly each morning on a FRAM. Then I swapped the FRAM for a Purolator and no more knock! Same oil.

Yeah, I probably could go 200K+ even with the knock, but that's not necessarily my goal. If I can get a *better* oil filter for the same money, that's what I'll do.

 

[TallPaul]

Good point made about the importance of a good air filter. Worse, air filters don't always seal as positively as oil filters. My '92 Aerostar had a very poor sealing air filter housing and I had to add a couple screws to help it seal better.

 

[tig1]

Originally Posted By: warrior
Wrong opinion? Since when is an opinion wrong? My opinion...all maintenance is important. EOM (Equal Opportunity Maintenance) on my car....


Startin now. It's official. If opinions are wrong there wrong. IMO.

 

[Donald]

OK, in MY opinion the construction of the Amsoil Ea was far superior to that of the M1 from a pure observation point of view. But the M1 was superior to say a STP.

 

[ZeeOSix]

Originally Posted By: tig1
Originally Posted By: warrior
Wrong opinion? Since when is an opinion wrong? My opinion...all maintenance is important. EOM (Equal Opportunity Maintenance) on my car....


Startin now. It's official. If opinions are wrong there wrong. IMO.

Someone's opinion of someone else's option being right or wrong is still an opinion.

 

[Sayjac]

Amsoil and M1 both excellent filters, M1 uses a synthetic blend for the media, Amsoil synthetic. Unless you run extended OCI's though, you'll likely not get your money's worth out of either.

Must say the new Napa Platinum cut-away looks quite similar to an Amsoil filter. But afaik, there's no specs for it yet though.

 

[ZeeOSix]

NAPA Platinum looks like a nice filter ... would like to see efficiency rating and flow numbers though. I'm sure it's probably up there with filters such as Royal Purple, TRD, etc that are of similar construction.

 

[OVERKILL]

Originally Posted By: sayjac
Amsoil and M1 both excellent filters, M1 uses a synthetic blend for the media, Amsoil synthetic. Unless you run extended OCI's though, you'll likely not get your money's worth out of either.

Must say the new Napa Platinum cut-away looks quite similar to an Amsoil filter. But afaik, there's no specs for it yet though.


All the glass media filters look very similar inside, and there are a pile of them beyond the EaO.

 

[Sayjac]

Originally Posted By: ZeeOSix
NAPA Platinum looks like a nice filter ... would like to see efficiency rating and flow numbers though. I'm sure it's probably up there with filters such as Royal Purple, TRD, etc that are of similar construction.
What's interesting is that unlike other Wix filters with thread end bypass, they decided to go with dome end bypass in the Platinum. And unlike Donaldson's nitrile adbv they use a silicone adbv like the RP and some other synthetics.

But yeah, as river_rats thread showed it is also similar looking to the filters you mentioned. I was just thinking how similar the advertised cutaway views look.

I think others would like to see some sort of specs on the Platinum too. Haven't seen anything yet.

 

[Donald]

Originally Posted By: sayjac
Amsoil and M1 both excellent filters, M1 uses a synthetic blend for the media, Amsoil synthetic. Unless you run extended OCI's though, you'll likely not get your money's worth out of either.

Must say the new Napa Platinum cut-away looks quite similar to an Amsoil filter. But afaik, there's no specs for it yet though.


Yes, but they say micro, not nano for the media.

 

[Sayjac]

Quote:
Yes, but they say micro, not nano for the media
I was 'strictly' looking at the cut-aways, as that is the topic of the thread. Don't see any mention of 'nano' in the Amsoil cut-away (only) description. Thus the word 'looks' similar. No matter, just making an observation.

 

[steve20]

Originally Posted By: tig1
Wrong opinion about M1 filters. Also oil filters are important, but air filters are far more important for the life of your engine. Many engines go for 200-300K with the OCOD with regular quality oil changes.


Do you patrol this board for any post which could possibly be construed as being anti-Mobil-1 material? This one took 12 minutes to dispute-were you on coffee break?---quit slacking off

 

[postjeeprcr]

Originally Posted By: Donald
Originally Posted By: sayjac
Amsoil and M1 both excellent filters, M1 uses a synthetic blend for the media, Amsoil synthetic. Unless you run extended OCI's though, you'll likely not get your money's worth out of either.

Must say the new Napa Platinum cut-away looks quite similar to an Amsoil filter. But afaik, there's no specs for it yet though.


Yes, but they say micro, not nano for the media.


So what is the difference between micro and nano? So different terminology makes one better than the other?