[Shotimes] Fram oil filter

[Donald Mallinson]

Mike,

There is a very good article with cut-up filteres of most 
major brands by Tim Wright on the SHOclub.com web site.

Go to:

http://shoclub.com/lubrication-oil/lubrication-oilpart1.htm

Don Mallinson


sho2go wrote:
> I have strong doubts, Mark.  If you consider the flow by the time the filter
> goes into bypass, its up greater than 5 gpm as high as the pump will flow,
> maybe 11-12 gpm.  Thats a tremendous amount of turbulence washing right by
> the folds, and I am quite sure a good portion of the debris will go along
> for the ride.
> Mike
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mark Mallory" <mmallory78@earthlink.net>
> To: "sho2go" <srfdude@cox.net>; <shotimes@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 5:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Fram oil filter
> 
> 
> 
>>I think it's a pretty safe bet that any contimnats will stay in the folds
> 
> of
> 
>>the filter.  Look at an air filter... even larger debris stays within the
>>filter folds until you physically separate the folds.  The more common
>>smaller particles will embed themselves in the filter and there is no
>>concern about them "falling" into the bypass stream.
>>
>>Mark Mallory
>>Toledo, Ohio
>>'95 SHO MTX
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "sho2go" <srfdude@cox.net>
>>To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
>>Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 7:54 PM
>>Subject: [Shotimes] Fram oil filter
>>
>>
>>
>>>I just changed my oil/filter after an AutoRx treatment, the filter was
>>
> the
> 
>>>Fram PH3600.  Cut it open to see what was in there (this was on my '90
>>
>>w/150K
>>
>>>miles) and found the bypass valve to be on the bottom.  Pretty black,
>>
> but
> 
>>no
>>
>>>gritty stuff.  Has anyone cut any of the normal suspects for an SHO
>>
> filter
> 
>>>apart to find the bypass on the top (where it should be)?  The oil forum
>>
>>tests
>>
>>>are showing that just about all filters will go into bypass at either
>>
> cold
> 
>>>temps, or high revs; I hate to think all the stuff thats filtered out
>>
> just
> 
>>>washes right through the bypass, when its on the bottom (opposite the
>>
>>screw-on
>>
>>>end).
>>>Mike
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