So I want to rant about all the oil filter YouTube videos… There are very few reviews that go beyond the physical construction of the filter and there is so much misinformation it is mind boggling. The typical review goes something like this. I cut open these here filters and this one was made with cardboard so it is obviously trash and will grenade an engine within 5 miles. This one on the other hand looks really purdy and the box says 97% efficiency (with no qualifiers) so it is the best. Almost none of the reviews take into account what a filter is supposed to do and if it does that effectively.
It got me to thinking if someone were to make a filter out of a solid slug of billet aluminum and carefully turned it on a lathe and then polished it to a high shine, welded the end plate on with beautiful welding job because why crimp when you can weld, put unobtanium end caps on the filter cartridge because we all know that unobtanium makes it filter better, it would also need a triple silicon bypass valve and of course a coil spring to hold tension because well why not, and for the filter media the finest most evenly spaced screen door mesh available. The box would have marketing speak like 5 micron efficiency (at 0.02% but this would be omitted) 100% efficient (at 1 inch, also omitted) or maybe something spectacular sounding like “Filters particles 5000 times smaller than the human eye can see” (at 35,000 feet) None of this of course would matter to the YouTuber because it would be the best looking filter anyone had ever seen. It wouldn’t filter worth a darn but who cares about details like that.
It got me to thinking if someone were to make a filter out of a solid slug of billet aluminum and carefully turned it on a lathe and then polished it to a high shine, welded the end plate on with beautiful welding job because why crimp when you can weld, put unobtanium end caps on the filter cartridge because we all know that unobtanium makes it filter better, it would also need a triple silicon bypass valve and of course a coil spring to hold tension because well why not, and for the filter media the finest most evenly spaced screen door mesh available. The box would have marketing speak like 5 micron efficiency (at 0.02% but this would be omitted) 100% efficient (at 1 inch, also omitted) or maybe something spectacular sounding like “Filters particles 5000 times smaller than the human eye can see” (at 35,000 feet) None of this of course would matter to the YouTuber because it would be the best looking filter anyone had ever seen. It wouldn’t filter worth a darn but who cares about details like that.
