Originally Posted By: lubricatosaurus
If you're extending oil change intervals to save time, money, and resources, it pays to get better oil filtration.
Believe the people who have tried it:
http://avt.inl.gov/pdf/oilbypass/oilbypassfinalreport.pdf
http://www.microgreenfilter.com/
Other than that, Fram needs to present some better evidence that smaller particles inside your engine has some benefit, since their Ultra filter works better at sub 20 microns than most oil filters.
Also, I haven't found many studies to show how an oil filter actually improves filtration performance as it collects soot and sludge, and other particles. Like air filters are known to do on the way to clogging.
Wow, those were good links. At least the top one being .gov I trust some. That's what I'm asking. I mean, has anyone (this article above kind of did) run their oil with a name brand yet cheap filter for 10k and then a great filter for 10k and done a few of these to statistically show that there's more bad stuff in the oil if you don't use a great filter? Also, like someone said, Toyota (and others) want high flow and don't care much about filtration. And my dads old cars growing up went 250+k and rusted out or got electrical issues before anything near wrong with the engine occurred. He'd leave Fram OCODS on for a double run once in a while because our local store was out of the specific model (small town, no Internet in the 80s and 90s)
If you're extending oil change intervals to save time, money, and resources, it pays to get better oil filtration.
Believe the people who have tried it:
http://avt.inl.gov/pdf/oilbypass/oilbypassfinalreport.pdf
http://www.microgreenfilter.com/
Other than that, Fram needs to present some better evidence that smaller particles inside your engine has some benefit, since their Ultra filter works better at sub 20 microns than most oil filters.
Also, I haven't found many studies to show how an oil filter actually improves filtration performance as it collects soot and sludge, and other particles. Like air filters are known to do on the way to clogging.
Wow, those were good links. At least the top one being .gov I trust some. That's what I'm asking. I mean, has anyone (this article above kind of did) run their oil with a name brand yet cheap filter for 10k and then a great filter for 10k and done a few of these to statistically show that there's more bad stuff in the oil if you don't use a great filter? Also, like someone said, Toyota (and others) want high flow and don't care much about filtration. And my dads old cars growing up went 250+k and rusted out or got electrical issues before anything near wrong with the engine occurred. He'd leave Fram OCODS on for a double run once in a while because our local store was out of the specific model (small town, no Internet in the 80s and 90s)