Get a remote oil filter mount set up put where you can get it.

Go Gators! $2 screwdriver is right...I spent ~ $100 on every conceivable oil filter wrench @ NAPA, several worthless wonder tools, pipe wrenches from Home Depot, not to mention I ruined my Old Reliable 25+ yr old filter wrench and the screwdriver worked.

I thought about the remote oil filter when I had the engines out last month but I've never had this problem before. I think the guy who installed the engines for me had to have put a wrench on the filters, but who knows. I installed the filters and ran the engines in my garage before I brought them to be installed.

Thanks again for the suggestion, I had setup to pull the engine out yesterday but figured I'd give it one more shot Monday...Busted up fingers / arms and a few ounces of blood...Now I have extra grand for gas money

K&N, they have a nut right on the bottom.

If their oil filters are anything like their air filters, you might as well just put an empty can where your oil filter goes.

It is worth mentioning that oil filters tend to come off much easier when the engine/filter is good and warm. You also have the benefit of draining the oil with more particles suspended in the oil when the engine was just run.

Agreed

I have had very good luck with this type of wrench, better that screwdriver IMO

I started with warm engines but this one wouldn't budge.

I used that exact belt wrench to squeeze the oil out of it...Crushed it to about half its size. It would have worked if I had more space to turn the Socket. I could only turn it about 1/8th of a turn. Once the belt had tension on it, it would stretch.

I helped a buddy of mine remove his oil filter the other night from his new boat SBC. Space was very limited. Obvoiusly, the moron that installed the prior filter did such with a wrench (I think it was factory).
It was a "the strain popped a vein in my forehead" removal, but it came off. Luckily, we did not need to resort to extreme measures. It reminded me of removing lug nuts from a wheel after the idioits at Discount Tire installed them.