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What oil filter are you running?

Discussion in 'Small Block Tech' started by 70skylark350, Feb 23, 2015.

  1. 70skylark350

    70skylark350 Jesus loves you unconditionally

    Hi, I know this question is like starting a conversation about politics, or what truck is better Ford, Chevy, or Dodge...... I'm a Ford guy myself, lol.

    I have been searching threads and I see a big variety of personal preference on this issue. I have been running a NAPA oil filter for the past two seasons but I was thinking about trying a Delco filter this year. I also read that some people like the PureOne filter.

    What filter do you guys like and is there a reason why? Thanks...
     
  2. sriley531

    sriley531 Excommunicado

    I have an entire case of k&n filters for the Buick. I've always had good results with their products, they seem to be well made, and I got them on sale from a local store for a stupid cheap price! I run Wix on all my dd's just because I've always read they were a good product. I figure you see them often times on heavy equipment and semi's, must mean something (hopefully it translates to passenger cars...)
     
  3. Mark Demko

    Mark Demko Well-Known Member

    In my opinion, any filter is fine as long as you stay away from Fram:TU:
     
  4. SteeveeDee

    SteeveeDee Orange Acres

    Post 4, lol, this is where the politics heat up. I've used Fram filters for decades without an oil related failure. YMMV.

    Also, posted here somewhere, and I'm too lazy to look, is a thread that condemns Wix filters. Just sayin'...and I'm currently running that very condemned (Wix) filter.

    I do what I do based on my own personal experience and observations, not necessarily on others' opinions. This is based on a lifetime of observations about reality, and how people handle it.
     
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  5. LARRY70GS

    LARRY70GS a.k.a. "THE WIZARD" Staff Member

  6. IHeartGroceries

    IHeartGroceries Well-Known Member

    Consider www.bobistheoilguy.com as your first and last resource for all things oil and lubricant related. Tons and tons and tons of topics there, with factual evidence to support those topics.
     
  7. gsjohnny1

    gsjohnny1 Well-Known Member

    we don't use no stinking oil filter............because there is no room for one on the dragster. lol
     
  8. alec296

    alec296 i need another buick

    How dirt can oil get in 9 seconds!!
     
  9. GSXMEN

    GSXMEN Got Jesus?

    Can't stand Fram oil filters. Had to change one on my friend's plow truck last month....started leaking right thru the case.

    Personally witnesed Fram filters causing an oil related tick on Buick engines.....both fixed by replacing with a Purolator filter. Wix/Napa is fine too. Once upon a time, Delco was a good one to use.....heard they have gone down hill since.
     
  10. AZ-69 Skylark

    AZ-69 Skylark Well-Known Member

    I use the Napa filters.
    Fram almost killed the engine on my mom's Camry. The filter has a rubber ring at the top of the filtering material. Well, a piece of that the rubber seal broke off and mostly plugged up the main oil passage in the engine. The oil light would briefly and randomly come on then go off. So after checking multiple things, we took it to our mechanic. After flushing it out he found the piece of rubber.
    It looked as if the rubber had been pinched between the housing and whatever else, causing it to break off. Between that and the other problems I've heard people having, I wouldn't use one if it was the only filter available.

    The rubber ring is in the red box in the pic.
     

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  11. Smokey15

    Smokey15 So old that I use AARP bolts.

    I use WIX or NAPA Gold on everything. Bobb Makely cut open a Fram and showed me how crappy they are.
     
  12. gstewart

    gstewart Well-Known Member

    Wix in three cars. When FRAM filters were made in Ontario, Canada prior to the sale to Tenneco (?), they were quality units.
     
  13. Jim Weise

    Jim Weise EFI/DIS 482

    The 51258 Wix filter is the best filter for the money out there.

    While there are plenty of other options, they all come at a higher cost, or higher labor issues with disassembling and cleaning re-useable filters.

    This wix filter is also sold by Napa in the "Gold Series" with PN 1258.

    6-8 bucks at your local auto parts store, thankfully they fit a wide range of early GM cars, and they typically are still stocked. I get mine from the local O'Reilly auto parts store.

    Try one, you will like it.

    JW
     
  14. 70skylark350

    70skylark350 Jesus loves you unconditionally

    Thanks for all the replies, I guess just like politics and pickup trucks it is more a matter of opinion than anything. I have been running the NAPA gold on the Buick so I guess I will just stick with that. I ran the PureOne on all my daily drivers for years with no issues but I have been running the factory Motocraft for the past couple years. The only one that I really have heard horror stories about are the Fram filters, I would be scared to try those but a ton of people use them every day. Thanks Again.
     
  15. BadBrad

    BadBrad Got 4-speed?

    Bosch - but it is smaller (i.e., a little less capacity). Mostly because it is available on a moment's notice at Autozone, it fits, and has antidrainback.
     
  16. BUICKRAT

    BUICKRAT Got any treats?

    Just an FYI, Ford Motorcraft filters scored second or third lowest in all single and multiple pass efficiency tests. Mobil one is your best bet as far as filtration and quality of build goes, but napa and wix are great products!
     
  17. SteeveeDee

    SteeveeDee Orange Acres

    Tastes great...less filling! I'll leave it at that.
     
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  18. eagleguy

    eagleguy 1971 Skylark Custom

    What's wrong with A/C Delco?
     
  19. BadBrad

    BadBrad Got 4-speed?

    Doesn't A/C stand for "All Chinese"?
     
  20. philbquick

    philbquick Founders Club Member

    I've been running Bosch for the last 10 years or so. They are 10 micron filters with 98% flow efficiency, same as a K&N at half the price! The Buick filter is 3430 which is a long filter.
     

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