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- May 26, 2001
Oil filters are taken for granted, but what is best for your engine is left to the advertising media or manufacturers info, so here is some interesting data.
Observe the following examples of K&P Engineering filter media:
This is a new unused filter element. The filter media is made up of thousands of very fine stainless steel wires woven into a filter cloth. Using this type of filter media allows us to provide OEM filtration with a much higher flow rate. This higher flow helps keep the engine flushed out. Fiber filters use fibers that are pressed or glued together and must get to a certain thickness to achieve the appropriate filtration, which introduces an inherently higher restriction to flow. This filter can be 80% plugged and still flow as much as a new paper fiber filter.
This is the K&P Engineering filter media after approximately 2500 miles in a 5.7 liter Chrysler engine with 215,000 miles on it. This engine has used a K&P Engineering oil filter since new. Very little debris on the filter media.
This is the K&P Engineering filter media after approximately 4000 miles in a Mercury V6 engine with 125,000 miles on it.
The oil changes for this engine had been neglected during the cars lifetime, and there is an abnormally high amount of debris on the filter media. It is, however, substantially less than the amount of debris from previous oil change (after approximately 4000 miles) which was the first using the K&P Engineering oil filter on this engine. This engine is getting cleaner with time as the K&P Engineering filter continues to clean the oil that is flowing through the engine.
This is the K&P Engineering filter media out of a customers M5 engine. The amount of debris on the filter media is so extreme that you can not even see the filter cloth, it is completely plugged. The customer indicated that the filter had only been in the engine for 1500 miles. This is a huge flag that the engine is begging for attention. The good news is the debris pictured here has been removed from the engine. The bad news is it looks like there is plenty more that should be removed from the engine. With the engine being this dirty we highly recommend an overly attentive program to get the engine back to normal. This would include very frequent filter cleanings until the filter looks more like the one out of the 5.7 liter engine above.
Observe the following examples of K&P Engineering filter media:
This is a new unused filter element. The filter media is made up of thousands of very fine stainless steel wires woven into a filter cloth. Using this type of filter media allows us to provide OEM filtration with a much higher flow rate. This higher flow helps keep the engine flushed out. Fiber filters use fibers that are pressed or glued together and must get to a certain thickness to achieve the appropriate filtration, which introduces an inherently higher restriction to flow. This filter can be 80% plugged and still flow as much as a new paper fiber filter.
This is the K&P Engineering filter media after approximately 2500 miles in a 5.7 liter Chrysler engine with 215,000 miles on it. This engine has used a K&P Engineering oil filter since new. Very little debris on the filter media.
This is the K&P Engineering filter media after approximately 4000 miles in a Mercury V6 engine with 125,000 miles on it.
The oil changes for this engine had been neglected during the cars lifetime, and there is an abnormally high amount of debris on the filter media. It is, however, substantially less than the amount of debris from previous oil change (after approximately 4000 miles) which was the first using the K&P Engineering oil filter on this engine. This engine is getting cleaner with time as the K&P Engineering filter continues to clean the oil that is flowing through the engine.
This is the K&P Engineering filter media out of a customers M5 engine. The amount of debris on the filter media is so extreme that you can not even see the filter cloth, it is completely plugged. The customer indicated that the filter had only been in the engine for 1500 miles. This is a huge flag that the engine is begging for attention. The good news is the debris pictured here has been removed from the engine. The bad news is it looks like there is plenty more that should be removed from the engine. With the engine being this dirty we highly recommend an overly attentive program to get the engine back to normal. This would include very frequent filter cleanings until the filter looks more like the one out of the 5.7 liter engine above.
