Can't find an Amsoil filter that replaces a HP6 or wix 51222R ????

The only drawback is the minimum 30 micron size which is probably nominal and 97% capture more like 50 micron. So a good racing filter no doubt.

You should check to see if the company has filter elements more the the neighborhood of 10-15 microns.



Here is how to open an oil filter easilly and safely.

http://www.speedwaymotors.com/OIL-FI...TTER,2618.html

Anybody do any testing with oil filter magnets, like Filter Mag?
I imagine they cant hurt anything, but how much do they really help?

The filter mags catch small "stuff". What is not clear to me is would the filter have caught it anyway? As you said....can't hurt.

Has anyone heard of a K&N 3002 filter failing. Had a customer lose an engine due to the media getting crushed internally. He checked with someone else and they had info.from Boost Power that they lost 2 engines on the dyno due to this. They said; use a Wix racing filter. This would have been avoided if he would have listened to the warning buzzer along with the oil pressure gauge, and just changed the filter. We could only figure it was from his older oil coolers having old dirt come out of them after a period of time running and breaking it down and flowing to the filter and clogging it. I told him he needed new coolers because of heat, wouldn't think after cleaning them that old dirt would break-down and flow out to the filter. How much oil temp can these filters stand?

http://www.knfilters.com/oilfilter.htm

This article (though on a Porsche) says if the oil temp is much over 210*F the oil will fry...probably much sooner than the oil filter wil.

http://www.elephantracing.com/techto...emperature.htm

K&N's look like good filters.

As far as max oil temps...

I see Mercury recently came out with a synthetic media oil filter for most of its engines now. I Wonder how they compare to the Amsoil EAO's I have been using?


Mercury Precision High Efficiency MerCruiser Oil Filter 858004K
Fits all Mercury MerCruiser/Mercury Inboard GM engines, except V-6 without remote oil filter
High efficiency, high performance synthetic media removes over 97% of oil contaminants versus 78% for conventional paper element filters

I think their previous filter was a "paper element filter"...


....we are on the right track with synthiteic oil and synthetic filter elements...actually we were ahead of the game a while back!

Boy, For me, ultimate filtration is for my daily drivers that see many, many miles. For my boat engines I want FLOW and lots of it. Just catch the rocks. I am hoping for 120 hours between teardowns, not 100,000 miles.

Just my .02 cents.
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What type of engines?