Where can one purchase bare filter media?

[FetchFar]

I use cartridge filters in both my cars, where the media is not surrounded by a metal can, making the media visible and accessible. ... Is it possible to buy Synteq media, or maybe whatever Amsoil uses in their bypass filters, just the media? ... I want to take a strip and lay it along the outside surface of my oil filters, glue it on the outside using silicon high temperature rubber, covering only about 10% of the normal media for lower micron filtration in a parallel path arrangement.

 

[Andy636]

IMHO is easier and safer to just use a bypass filter.

 

[FetchFar]

Originally Posted By: Andy636
IMHO is easier and safer to just use a bypass filter.
... Cartridge filters make that a lot harder, no adaptor plate to split the flow. I'm really trying to do kind of what www.microgreenfilter.com does, a parallel path flow. A bypass just dumps its flow into sump.

 

[Andy636]

Originally Posted By: FetchFar
Originally Posted By: Andy636
IMHO is easier and safer to just use a bypass filter.
... Cartridge filters make that a lot harder, no adaptor plate to split the flow. I'm really trying to do kind of what www.microgreenfilter.com does, a parallel path flow. A bypass just dumps its flow into sump.


Not really, you need an Oil Filter Cap that is made from metal. If your's is already metal then you are gold since you can weld a nipple to that and if not you could look for one on Amsoil's site or have one machined to your specs by a machine shop

 

[FetchFar]

Originally Posted By: Andy636
Originally Posted By: FetchFar
Originally Posted By: Andy636
IMHO is easier and safer to just use a bypass filter.
... Cartridge filters make that a lot harder, no adaptor plate to split the flow. I'm really trying to do kind of what www.microgreenfilter.com does, a parallel path flow. A bypass just dumps its flow into sump.


Not really, you need an Oil Filter Cap that is made from metal. If your's is already metal then you are gold since you can weld a nipple to that and if not you could look for one on Amsoil's site or have one machined to your specs by a machine shop


Agree thats not a bad idea. I just don't want to drill holes in the cap and sump. The 11 Camaro V6 LLT engine one is metal, my 07 BMW 530 is not.

 

[surfstar]

Originally Posted By: FetchFar
I want to take a strip and lay it along the outside surface of my oil filters, glue it on the outside using silicon high temperature rubber, covering only about 10% of the normal media for lower micron filtration in a parallel path arrangement.



Why? What do you expect to gain from this? Your engine will outlast your vehicle with any cheap filter off the shelf and reasonable oil change intervals.

 

[FetchFar]

Originally Posted By: surfstar
Originally Posted By: FetchFar
I want to take a strip and lay it along the outside surface of my oil filters, glue it on the outside using silicon high temperature rubber, covering only about 10% of the normal media for lower micron filtration in a parallel path arrangement.



Why? What do you expect to gain from this? Your engine will outlast your vehicle with any cheap filter off the shelf and reasonable oil change intervals.


Gain filtration (multi-pass) down to 2 microns, reducing wear particles, increasing oil life, ... and because its fun. This is bobistheoilguy-land isn't it? LOL