NAPA Gold 1515 C&P

On the cutter today is a NAPA Gold 1515. This filter comes off a Mastercraft Prostar boat w/ the 351w engine. I just purchased this boat and went through all the filters and fluids.

This filter crosses over to a Motorcraft FL1A and WIX 51515. The oil was unknown. The OCI was unknown. I have records of an oil change in 2023. The oil looked brand new.

Overall, the filter looks good. It is a M+H filter, but has holes instead of louvers. The media is evenly spaced, no excess glue, but does not have a crimped seam. The media seems thinner than other filters I have cut open.

If anyone has future oil filter recommendations, let me know! I intend on through some filters from PGI into my next RA order, but could be swayed.

Here are the pics!

 

[53' Stude]

That date code is a year ago, so doubt they went back to holes in the center tube, etc. I thought NAPA went to PGI made filters now.

Wait, that was member drtlayer NOT murky asparagus. He hasn’t told us the date code on his filter. Or I missed it.